Apr 29, 2011 · release suggests a setting loose from confinement, restraint, or a state of pressure or tension, often without implication of permanent liberation.

RELEASE definition: 1. to give freedom or free movement to someone or something: 2. to move a device from a fixed…. Learn more.

If you release a device, you move it so that it stops holding something. Wade released the hand brake and pulled away from the curb. [VERB noun]

RELEASE definition: to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go. See examples of release used in a sentence.

To release something or someone is to set it free, like a caged animal or a prisoner. “I shall be released” is a famous refrain from a 1967 Bob Dylan song that has come to symbolize political …

To cause or allow to move away or spread from a source or place of confinement: cells that release histamine. d. To make available for use: released the funds for the project. 2. a. To set …

5 days ago · release (third-person singular simple present releases, present participle releasing, simple past and past participle released) (transitive) To let go of; to cease to hold or contain.

RELEASE meaning: 1. to allow a prisoner to be free: 2. to stop holding someone or something: 3. to let the public…. Learn more.

2 days ago · A new federal law requires the Justice Department to release by Friday a massive trove of investigative documents related to Jeffrey Epstein.

There are 19 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun release, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.