Reset vs Release - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between reset and release

is that reset is a button that resets a device, often a computer while 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.

reset

English

Etymology 1

Verb

To set back to the initial state.

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To set to zero.

To adjust again after an initial failure.

Noun

(en noun)

An act of resetting to the initial state

Setting to zero

Something that is reset

A device, such as a button or switch, for resetting something.

(typography) That which is reset; printed matter set up again.

Derived terms

* factory reset * resettable * resetter

Etymology 2

From (receipt)

Alternative forms

* ressett

Noun

(en noun)

(Scots law) the crime of knowingly and dishonestly receiving stolen goods, or harbouring an outlaw.

References

* [http://www.police-information.co.uk/legislation/legislationindexsco.html

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Anagrams

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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.