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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:
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- what releases neurotransmitters
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- what releases carbon dioxide
- what releases insulin
- what releases serotonin
- what releases cortisol
loos
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- enPR: lo?oz, IPA(key): /lu?z/
- Rhymes: -u?z
- Homophone: lose
Noun
loos
- plural of loo
Etymology 2
From Middle English l?s (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Compare laud.
Pronunciation
- enPR: lo?os, IPA(key): /lu?s/
- Rhymes: -u?s
- Homophone: loose
Noun
loos (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Praise, fame, reputation.
- Hercules that had the grete loos
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, vi, xii, 12
- That much he feared, least reprochfull blame
- With foule dishonour him mote blot therefore;
- Besides the losse of so much loos and fame,
- As through the world thereby should glorifie his name.
Anagrams
- OOLs, Oslo, sloo, solo, sool
Cornish
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *llu?d, from Proto-Celtic *?l?tos.
Pronunciation
- (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [lo?z]
- (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [lu?z]
Adjective
loos
- grey
See also
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lo?s/
- Hyphenation: loos
- Rhymes: -o?s
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch loos, from Old Dutch *l?s, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz.
Adjective
loos (comparative lozer, superlative meest loos or loost)
- blank, empty
- idle
- amiss, wrong, problematic
- sly, cunning
- (obsolete) clever, insightful
Inflection
Derived terms
- loosheid
See also
- -loos
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
loos
- first-person singular present indicative of lozen
- imperative of lozen
Anagrams
- Oslo
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian *l?s (attested only in compounds as -l?s), from Proto-West Germanic *laus. More at lease, loose.
Adjective
loos
- empty
loos From the web:
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- what loosens and breaks down mucus