What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Release vs Scandal - What's the difference?

release | scandal | Related terms |

Release is a related term of scandal.


As nouns the difference between release and scandal

is that release is the event of setting (someone or something) free (eg hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms) while scandal is an incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.

As verbs the difference between release and scandal

is that 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 while scandal is (obsolete) to treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.

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).
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
    • , title= 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.}}
  • (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
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 13, author=Sam Lyon, work=BBC
    • , title= 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
    * hold

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (releas)
  • To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

    • scandal

    English

    (wikipedia scandal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An incident or event that disgraces or damages the reputation of the persons or organization involved.
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:O, what a scandal is it to our crown, / That two such noble peers as ye should jar!
  • *{{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals , fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic
  • Damage to one's reputation.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Such a scandal as the prosecution of a brother for forgery—with a verdict of guilty—is a most truly horrible, deplorable, fatal thing. It takes the respectability out of a family perhaps at a critical moment, when the family is just assuming the robes of respectability:.
  • Widespread moral outrage, indignation, as over an offence to decency.
  • :
  • (lb) Religious discredit; an act or behaviour which brings a religion into discredit.
  • (lb) Something which hinders acceptance of religious ideas or behaviour; a stumbling-block or offense.
  • Defamatory talk; gossip, slander.
  • :
  • *1855 , Anthony Trollope, The Warden ,
  • *:Scandal' at Barchester affirmed that had it not been for the beauty of his daughter, Mr. Harding would have remained a minor canon; but here probably '''Scandal''' lied, as she so often does; for even as a minor canon no one had been more popular among his reverend brethren in the close, than Mr. Harding; and ' Scandal , before she had reprobated Mr. Harding for being made precentor by his friend the bishop, had loudly blamed the bishop for having so long omitted to do something for his friend Mr. Harding.

    • Derived terms

    * scandalize * scandalization * scandalmonger * scandal of particularity * scandalous * scandalousness * scandal sheet

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To treat opprobriously; to defame; to slander.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do fawn on men and hug them hard / And after scandal them.
  • (obsolete) To scandalize; to offend.
    • (Bishop Story)
    (Webster 1913)