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release
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)
- The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
- (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private.
- Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
- That which is released, untied or let go.
- (law) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
- Liberation from pain or suffering.
- (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
- (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
- (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
- A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
- 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.
- (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)
- To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
- To make available to the public.
- To free or liberate; to set free.
- To discharge.
- (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
- (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.
- To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- punishments inflicted and released
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
- (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
- (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)
- (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
Translations
release From the web:
- what releases dopamine
- what releases neurotransmitters
- what releases endorphins
- what releases oxytocin
- what releases carbon dioxide
- what releases insulin
- what releases serotonin
- what releases cortisol
expose
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French exposer (“to lay open, set forth”), from Latin exp?n? (“set forth”), with contamination from poser (“to lay, place”). Doublet of expound, via Old French espondre (“to set forth, explain”), from the same Latin term.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?sp??z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k?spo?z/, /?k?spo?z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Verb
expose (third-person singular simple present exposes, present participle exposing, simple past and past participle exposed)
- (transitive) To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to.
- (transitive) To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image.
- (transitive) To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness.
- 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Eskimo Life, page 152:
- This they do, as a rule, by exposing the child or throwing it into the sea.
- 1893, Fridtjof Nansen, Eskimo Life, page 152:
- To submit to an active (mostly dangerous) substance like an allergen, ozone, nicotine, solvent, or to any other stress, in order to test the reaction, resistance, etc.
- (computing, transitive) To make available to other parts of a program, or to other programs.
- 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems (page 266)
- In the OO world, the word is to hide the structure of the data, and expose only functionality. OO designers expose an object to the world in terms of the services it provides.
- 2000, Robert C. Martin, More C++ Gems (page 266)
Synonyms
- (to reveal): bare, nake; see Thesaurus:reveal
- (a hidden aspect of one's character): bewray
- (to remove clothing): doff; see Thesaurus:undress
Derived terms
- expose oneself
- exposure
- exposition
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k.spoz/
Verb
expose
- first-person singular present indicative of exposer
- third-person singular present indicative of exposer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of exposer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of exposer
- second-person singular imperative of exposer
expose From the web:
- what exposed the weakness of the articles of confederation
- what exposed mean
- what exposed the soil of the great plains
- what exposes you to radiation
- what exposed fossils
- what exposes nerve endings
- what exposes us to radiation
- what exposes the king and duke as frauds
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