What does release mean?

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[n] merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)(a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra)[v] release, as from one's grip(Let go of the door handle, please! relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall)[n] the act of liberating someone or somethin

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release - The Free Dictionary

[n] merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
(a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra)

[v] release, as from one's grip
(Let go of the door handle, please! relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall)

[n] the act of liberating someone or something

[v] grant freedom to; free from confinement

[n] a process that liberates or discharges something
(there was a sudden release of oxygen the release of iodine from the thyroid gland)

[v] let (something) fall or spill from a container
(turn the flour onto a plate)

[n] an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

[v] prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
(publish a magazine or newspaper)

[n] the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

[v] eliminate (a substance)
(combustion products are exhausted in the engine the plant releases a gas)

[n] euphemistic expressions for death
(thousands mourned his passing)

[v] generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
(secrete digestive juices release a hormone into the blood stream)

[n] a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

[v] make (information) available for publication
(release the list with the names of the prisoners)

[n] a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

[v] part with a possession or right
(I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest resign a claim to the throne)

[n] activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
(she had no other outlet for her feelings he gave vent to his anger)

[v] release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

[n] the act of allowing a fluid to escape

[v] make (assets) available
(release the holdings in the dictator's bank account)

[n] a formal written statement of relinquishment

[n] (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.