release
/ɹəˈliːs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.09 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads."
- "The video store advertised that it had all the latest releases."
- "They marked the occasion with a release of butterflies."
- "She quivered in release."
- "His hot release pouring into her, filling her and adding to the wettness within her"
- "He released his grasp on the lever."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *wre- Latin re-der. Old French re- Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg- Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-s-ós Latin laxus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin laxō Vulgar Latin *laxicāre Vulgar Latin *lassicāre Old French laschier Old French relaschier Old French relaisserbor. Middle English relesen English release From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: relesen, relaisser