- allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free释放, 解放：
the government announced that the prisoners would be released.
政府宣布囚犯将被释放。
- remove restrictions or obligations from (someone or something) so that they become available for other activity解除对…的限制; 免除…的义务; 解放…的力量：
the strategy would release forces for service in other areas.
这一战略会腾出一些部队去其他地区执行任务。
- allow (information) to be generally available公布, 发布（消息）：
no details about the contents of the talks were released.
会谈内容的细节没有公布。
- make (a film or recording) available for general viewing or purchase公开发行（电影, 录制品）：
nine singles and one album had been released.
九张单曲唱片和一套唱片集已经公开发行。
- allow (something concentrated in a small area) to spread and work freely使（浓缩物）扩散, 释放, 释出, 逸出：
growth hormone is released into the blood during the first part of sleep.
生长激素在睡眠的第一阶段被释放到血液中。
- remove (part of a machine or appliance) from a fixed position, allowing something else to move or function松开, 打开（机器或器械的某部分）：
he released the handbrake.
他松开了手刹车。
- allow (something) to return to its resting position by ceasing to put pressure on it松开（某物）使回到原位：
press the cap down and release.
将盖子按下后松手（使其回到原位）。
- Law remit or discharge (a debt)【律】免除, 解除（债务）。
- surrender (a right)放弃（权利）; 将（权利）让予。
- make over (property or money) to another将（钱财）让予。
- the action or process of releasing or being released释放; 放松：
a campaign by the prisoner's mother resulted in his release.
该囚犯母亲所发起的运动导致他被释放。
- the action of making a film, recording, or other product available for general viewing or purchase（电影、录音制品等的）公开发行：
the film was withheld for two years before its release.
该电影公开发行前被禁映了两年。
- count noun a film or other product issued for viewing or purchase发行的电影（或其他产品）：
his current album release has topped the charts for six months.
他目前发行的唱片占据每周流行唱片排行榜冠军位置长达六个月之久。
- count noun a press release新闻发布; 新闻稿。
- count noun a handle or catch that releases part of a mechanism脱扣器, 擒纵装置。
- Law the action of releasing property, money, or a right to another【律】放弃, 让予。
- count noun a document effecting this放弃文书。
on release
- (of a film) being generally shown; available for viewing（电影）在公映, 发行：
the movie will be on release from Christmas.
影片将从圣诞节起开始上映。