Release vs Releasement - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between release and releasement

is that release is the event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms) while releasement is release, the act of releasing or letting something go.

As a verb release

is to let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.

release

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) relaisser (variant of relascher).

Noun

(en noun)

The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms).

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(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.

Derived terms

* prerelease * release notes * release from requirement * software release * release process

Verb

(releas)

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.

to release an ordinance

(Hooker)

(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity

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Antonyms

* hold

Etymology 2

Verb

(releas)

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

releasement

English

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) release, the act of releasing or letting something go.

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, passage=On his releasement from prison, he learned that the beloved cause of his persecution had been forced to marry a nobleman, whose name he could not discover, but who had carried her to his castle near Bristol. }}

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, passage=St. Eulogius himself was obliged by the persecutors to live always, after his releasement , with the treacherous bishop Reccafred, that wolf in sheep's clothing. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1893, author=James Cook, title=Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Immediately upon getting this information I dispatch'd Mr. Hicks away in the Long boat with a strong party of men to rescue them but before he went Tootaha and the other Chiefs was made to understand that they must send some of their People with Mr. Hicks to shew him the place where our men were, and at the same time to send orders for their immediate releasement , for if any harm came to the men they (the Chiefs) would suffer for it; and I believe at this time they wished as much to see the Men return in safety as I did, for the guides conducted Mr. Hicks to the place before daylight, and he recovered the men without the least opposition, and return'd with them about 7 o'Clock in the morning of Tuesday, 11th. }}

The exorcism of an outworldly spirit from someone.