Banish vs Release - What's the difference?
banish | release |
(label) To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.
#(with simple direct object)
#:If you don't stop talking blasphemes, I will banish you.
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#:He was banished from the kingdom.
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#*, Ch.V, Modern Library, 1999, p.640:
#*:Now for Christ's love, said Sir Launcelot, keep it in counsel, and let no man know it in the world, for I am sore ashamed that I have been thus miscarried; for I am banished out of the country of Logris for ever, that is for to say the country of England.
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#*, II.10:
#*:he never referreth any one unto vertue, religion, or conscience: as if they were all extinguished and banished the world.
#*1796 , (Matthew Lewis), The Monk , Folio Society, 1985, p.190:
#*:Then yours she will never be! You are banished her presence; her mother has opened her eyes to your designs, and she is now upon her guard against them.
To expel, especially from the mind.
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, title= The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).
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, title= (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be both public or private.
Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
That which is released, untied or let go.
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.
(telephone) (of a call) To hang up.
(legal) 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.
(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 13, author=Sam Lyon, work=BBC
, title= To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
As verbs the difference between banish and release
is that banish is To send someone away and forbid that person from returning.release is to let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.As a noun release is
the event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).banish
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Verb
(es)How to cook the perfect nut roast, passage=The parsnip, stilton and chestnut combination may taste good, but it's not terribly decorative. In fact, dull's the word, a lingering adjectival ghost of nut roasts past that I'm keen to banish from the table.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) relaisser (variant of relascher).Noun
(en noun)Charles T. Ambrose
Alzheimer’s Disease, volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* prerelease * release notes * release from requirement * software release * release processVerb
(releas)- to release an ordinance
- (Hooker)
Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Arsenal, passage=With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post.}}