different between purging vs release

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d???

Verb

purging

1. present participle of purge

Noun

purging (plural purgings)

1. The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing, particularly:
   1. (chiefly politics) A removal of undesirable people.
   2. (chiefly chemistry) The cleansing of a device by flushing it with water, steam, or some other liquid or gas.
2. The removal of waste from the human body, particularly:
   1. (premodern medicine) The removal of excess humors through bloodletting, induced vomitting, etc.
   2. (medicine) The removal of digested waste: defecation; defecation induced by laxatives.
3. (chiefly medicine) Vomiting; vomiting induced by purgatives.
   • 1849, The Journal of Health and Disease, page 98:

     He had violent pains in his belly, and purgings...

4. (obsolete and rare) That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
5. (obsolete and rare) Synonym of purgation: the act or an instance of removing guilt or suspicion of a misdeed.

Synonyms

• (removal of undesirables): purge; see also witchhunt
• (defecation): See Thesaurus:defecation
• (vomiting): See vomiting and Thesaurus:regurgitate
• (thing purged): See blood, sin, Thesaurus:vomit, and Thesaurus:feces

Translations

References

• "purging, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (2007), Oxford: Oxford University Press.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???li?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Noun

release (countable and uncountable, plural releases)

1. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
2. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
3. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).

4. That which is released, untied or let go.

5. (law) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
6. Liberation from pain or suffering.
7. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
8. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
9. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
10. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
    1. 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.
    2. The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
    3. The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken
11. Orgasm.

12. (music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.

Compounds

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

release (third-person singular simple present releases, present participle releasing, simple past and past participle released)

1. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.

2. To make available to the public.

3. To free or liberate; to set free.

4. To discharge.

5. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.

6. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
7. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     punishments inflicted and released

8. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
9. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
10. (intransitive) to come out; be out.

Antonyms

• hold

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? lease

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??li?s/
• Rhymes: -i?s

Verb

release (third-person singular simple present releases, present participle releasing, simple past and past participle released)

1. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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