See Also: Release(medicine)
Release(money)
Release(finance)
pre-release(dictionary)
re-release(dictionary)
release(1)(dictionary)
release(2)(dictionary)
day release(dictionary)
re-release(dictionary)
RELEASE(law)

release(1) (iou)



release noun. ME.
[Old French reles, from relesser: see RELEASE verb.]
Deliverance or liberation from trouble, pain, sorrow, etc.; liberation from emotional or physical tension. ME.
happy release: see HAPPY adjective.
G. Greene What a sense of release you must have experienced when you set fire to Thomas Earl Parkman, junior. Day Lewis The release of first love long dammed up. M. Holroyd From his innate melancholy he sought release through multifarious love-affairs.
a. Deliverance or liberation from some obligation, duty, or demand. ME.
b. Remission of a tax, debt, obligation, etc. LME-M17.
c. A written discharge from a debt or obligation; an acquittance, a receipt. LME.
d. A written authorization or permission for publication, esp. from a copyright owner or person depicted in a photograph. M20.
Law. The action of conveying an estate or right to another or of legally disposing of it; a deed or document effecting this. ME.
a. The action of freeing or fact of being freed from restraint or imprisonment; permission to go free. Also, a document giving formal discharge from custody. L16.
J. Halperin Upon Gissing's release from prison..he returned to Wakefield.
b. The action of letting go something fixed or confined in a mechanism; a device, as a handle or catch, by which this is effected. L19.
K. Roos He buzzed the button of the apartment;..the click of the release sounded immediately. Antiquity Upon release this energy is transferred to the arrow. attrib.: J. Aiken It is quite safe, unless anyone presses the release spring.
c. Telephony. The action of freeing for further use apparatus or circuitry which has been engaged. L19.
d. Phonetics. The action or manner of ending the obstruction involved in the articulation of a stop consonant (by which the plosion is produced). E20.
e. A passage of jazz music that links repetitions of a main melody. Chiefly US. M20.
a. The action of making available for publication a document or piece of information; the document etc. itself. E20.
S. Booth The release also said the tour 'will take in 13 cities'.
b. The action of making a film, recording, etc., available to the public; the film, recording, etc., itself. E20.
C. Chaplin With the release of my first film..the debt was wiped out.
Comb.: release agent a substance applied to a surface in order to prevent adhesion to it; release note a note authorizing the release of something, spec. (part of) an aircraft as fit for service.
releasable adjective E17.