Release vs Mount - What's the difference?
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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
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, title= To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
A mountain.
(label) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
* Bible, Jer. vi. 6
(label) A bank; a fund.
An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse
A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
(label) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
To move upwards.
#(lb) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
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#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:Or shall we mount again the Rural Throne, / And rule the Country Kingdoms, once our own?
#(lb) To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
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#(lb) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:to mount the Trojan troop
# To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up .
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:What power is it which mounts my love so high?
# To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up .
#*Bible, (w) li. 53
#*:Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.
#* (1743-1809)
#*:The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
(lb) To attach (an object) to a support.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
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*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
# To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
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To increase in quantity or intensity.
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(lb) To attain in value; to amount (to).
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Bring then these blessings to a strict account, / Make fair deductions, see to what they mount .
(lb) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
# To have sexual intercourse with someone.
(lb) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
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, title= To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
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(lb) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
As a noun release
is the event of setting (someone or something) free (eg hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).As a verb release
is to let go (of); to cease to hold or contain or release can be to lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.As a proper noun mount is
.release
English
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.}}
Antonyms
* holdEtymology 2
Verb
(releas)mount
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) munt, from (etyl) , from a root seen also in (English eminent).Noun
(en noun)- Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.
Usage notes
* Used chiefly in poetry, but also in the names of specific mountains, e.g. "Mount Everest".Derived terms
* (abbreviation)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mounten, from (etyl) mounter, from (etyl) monter, from ; compare French monter.Noun
(en noun)- The rider climbed onto his mount .
- The post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed.
- The General said he has 2,000 mounts .
Verb
(en verb)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
