release
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈliːs/
The English word “release” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
- The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- The act or manner of ending a sound.
- In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- 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.
- The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
- The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken.
- Orgasm.
- Discharged semen
- A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).
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