release

Definitions

1. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms)
2. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
   countable, uncountable
3. The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product
4. The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
   countable, uncountable
5. to lease again.
6. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale)
7. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
   countable, uncountable
8. To set free from confinement or bondage: released the prisoner.
9. That which is released, untied or let go
10. That which is released, untied or let go.
    countable, uncountable
11. To set free from obligations, commitments, or debt: released them from their contract.
12. The giving up of a claim, especially a debt
13. The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
    countable, uncountable
14. To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution: release a new movie.
15. Liberation from pain or suffering.
    countable, uncountable
16. Law To surrender (a right, claim, or title).
    Law
17. The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
    countable, uncountable
18. Deliverance or liberation, as from confinement.
19. The act or manner of ending a sound.
    countable, uncountable
20. An unfastening or letting go, as of something caught or held fast.
21. In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
    countable, historical, uncountable
22. A device or catch for locking or releasing a mechanism.
23. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
    countable, uncountable
24. A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit.
    countable, uncountable
25. The act or an instance of issuing something for publication, use, or distribution.
26. The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
    countable, uncountable
27. Law a. The surrender of a right, title, or claim, especially to one against whom the right, title, or claim would be enforced or exercised.
    Law
28. The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken.
    countable, uncountable
29. Orgasm.
    countable, uncountable
30. Discharged semen
    countable, uncountable
31. A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Similar studies of rats have⟳ employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release⟳ systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.”

“The video store advertised that it had all the latest releases.”

“They marked the occasion with a release⟳ of butterflies.”

“She quivered in release⟳.”

“His hot release⟳ pouring into her, filling her and adding to the wettness within her”

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