release

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   make (assets) available

   release the holdings in the dictator's bank account

2. 2
   verb

   make (information) available for publication

   release the list with the names of the prisoners

3. 3
   noun

   merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)

   a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra

4. 4
   noun

   a process that liberates or discharges something

   there was a sudden release of oxygen

5. 5
   noun

   The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).

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

7. 7
   noun

   That which is released, untied or let go.

   They marked the occasion with a release of butterflies.

8. 8
   noun

   Orgasm.

   She quivered in release.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re- Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg- Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-s-ós Latin laxus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laxō Vulgar Latin *laxicāre Vulgar Latin *lassicāre Old French laschier Old French relaschier Old French relaisserbor. Middle English relesen English release From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).