Usually means: Allowing something to become free.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word release:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. release: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. release: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. release: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. release: Collins English Dictionary
  5. release: Vocabulary.com
  6. Release, release: Wordnik
  7. release: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. release: Wiktionary
  9. release: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. release: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. release: Dictionary.com
  12. release (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. release: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Release (Angel), Release (Angel episode), Release (Cop Shoot Cop album), Release (Damon Johnson album), Release (David Knopfler album), Release (Pet Shop Boys album), Release (Sister Hazel album), Release (The Tea Party song), Release (The Tension), Release (The X-Files), Release (Timbaland song), Release (agency), Release (film), Release (music), Release (phonetics), Release: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Release: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. release: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. release: Rhymezone
  18. release: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. release: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. release: Free Dictionary
  21. release: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. release: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. release: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. release: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. release: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Release (album), release: Legal dictionary
  11. Release (album), release: Financial dictionary
  12. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. release: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. release: CCI Computer
  3. Release: Game Dictionary
  4. Release (album), release: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  4. Release (album), release: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. release: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. release: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. release: Golfer's Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See releasable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
noun:  (software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
noun:  Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
noun:  That which is released, untied or let go.
noun:  (law) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.
noun:  Liberation from pain or suffering.
noun:  (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
noun:  (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
noun:  (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations.
noun:  A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
noun:  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.
noun:  The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload.
noun:  The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken.
noun:  Orgasm.
noun:  Discharged semen
noun:  (music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.
verb:  To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
verb:  To make available to the public.
verb:  To free or liberate; to set free.
verb:  To discharge.
verb:  (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
verb:  (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.
verb:  To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
verb:  (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
verb:  (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
verb:  (intransitive) to launch; to come out; to become available.
verb:  (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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