release
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What is a basic definition of release?
Release means to free from imprisonment or confinement, to free from anything that is acting as a constraint, or to allow something to be out in the open. The word release has many other senses as a verb and a noun.
When a person is released, they are freed from their captivity or anything else that was hindering their freedom. This sense of release is an antonym of words like imprison, detain, or confine.
- Real-life examples: A person is released from prison once they complete their sentence. For the most part, a person is released from debt if they declare bankruptcy. Parents often force children to release wild animals back to wherever they came from.
- Used in a sentence: Whenever I go fishing, I always release the fish back into the water after catching them.
Release is also used in this same sense as a noun.
- Used in a sentence: The king paid for the release of his son from the enemy.
Release is also used figuratively to mean to free anything from any kind of restraint.
- Used in a sentence: I released the rope and let it fall down into the hole.
Release can also mean to allow something to be freely distributed or sold to the public.
- Real-life examples: Authors release new books. Musicians release new albums. The government sometimes releases information to the press. Researchers release the results of tests or studies to the public.
- Used in a sentence: Stephen King just released a new book that I really want to read.
Release is used in this same sense as a noun.
- Used in a sentence: People lined up to buy Beyoncé’s newest release.
Where does release come from?
The first records of release come from the early 1300s. It ultimately comes from the Latin verb relaxāre, meaning “to loosen, stretch out.” The English word relax shares this origin.
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What are some other forms related to release?
- releaser (noun)
- releasability (noun)
- releasable (adjective)
- nonrelease (noun)
- unreleasable (adjective)
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What are some words that often get used in discussing release?
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How is release used in real life?
Release is a common word that most often means to free something or to make something available to the public.
I'm so emotional right now. My dad is being released from jail!!! He's been there since I was 5 😭
— Matthew Lush (@MatthewLush) June 12, 2015
My daughter and I rescued and released a bird that was stuck in our basement. So now when I hear the meadowlarks sing I will assume that it is a ballad about our kindness and heroism.
— Ben Fowlkes (@benfowlkesMMA) September 12, 2020
Migos just released a new album with 24 songs that sound like the previous 250 songs they have made.
— Piques (@piques15) January 26, 2018
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True or False?
If a prisoner is released from jail, it means they aren’t locked up anymore and are free to leave.