Definition of Release

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Release

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; also, the catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, which acts in case of an overload.

The act or manner of ending a sound.

In the block-signaling system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.

To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.

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; as, to release an ordinance.

The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.

Relief from care, pain, or any burden.

Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.

A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.

The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

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Release Quotations

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Virgin Records will probably release their own package sometime next year.
Paula Abdul

Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer

After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
Jackie Chan

It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.
Jo Brand

Release Translations

release in Afrikaans is verlos, laat, vrymaak
release in Dutch is loslaten, uitlaten, tappen, lossen
release in German is Freigabe, Ausgabe {f}, freigeben, Freigabe
release in Latin is eximo, liberatio, solvo
release in Norwegian is forlate
release in Portuguese is libere
release in Spanish is solucionar, liberar, descargo, soltar

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