What's the difference between release and unleash?

Release


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • (n.) To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.
  • (n.) To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.
  • (n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
  • (n.) Relief from care, pain, or any burden.
  • (n.) Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.
  • (n.) A giving up or relinquishment of some right or claim; a conveyance of a man's right in lands or tenements to another who has some estate in possession; a quitclaim.
  • (n.) The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fluoride treated specimens released more fluoride than the nontreated ones.
  • (2) In conclusion, in S-rats a glucose-stimulated insulin release is accompanied by an increase in IBF, but this is not observed in P-rats.
  • (3) These are typically runaway processes in which global temperature rises lead to further releases of CO², which in turn brings about more global warming.
  • (4) This study examined the [3H]5-HT-releasing properties of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and related agents, all of which cause significant release of [3H]5-HT from rat brain synaptosomes.
  • (5) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
  • (6) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
  • (7) In contrast, the effects of deltamethrin and cypermethrin promote transmitter release by a Na+ dependent process.
  • (8) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
  • (9) In addition to their involvement in thrombosis, activated platelets release growth factors, most notably a platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) which may be the principal mediator of smooth muscle cell migration from the media into the intima and of smooth muscle cell proliferation in the intima as well as of vasoconstriction.
  • (10) During recovery glucose uptake was reduced and citrate release was unaffected.
  • (11) Bradykinin also stimulated arachidonic acid release in decidual fibroblasts, an effect which was potentiated in the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF), but which was not accompanied by an increase in PGF2 alpha production.
  • (12) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
  • (13) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (14) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
  • (15) Results suggest that Cd-MT is reabsorbed and broken down by kidney tubule cells in a physiological manner with possible subsequent release of the toxic cadmium ion.
  • (16) The latter result indicates that the dexamethasone block is upstream from release of esterified arachidonic acid.
  • (17) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
  • (18) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
  • (19) Furthermore, H-7 enhanced the effect of thrombin on AA release.
  • (20) Because it has been suggested that the lathyrogen, BAPN, may stimulate the release of proteases, the protease inhibitors Trasylol and epsilon-aminocaproic acid (EACA) were given alone or in combination to BAPN-treated rats.

Unleash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To free from a leash, or as from a leash; to let go; to release; as, to unleash dogs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
  • (2) He unleashes a scorching drive from about 18 yards, which Joe Hart tips wide via his right post.
  • (3) And 96% of our grants go to African organisations, universities, scientists and small businesses to achieve a single goal: reduce hunger and poverty on our continent by unleashing the potential of the millions of small, family farmers who are the backbone of African agriculture and African economies.
  • (4) The prime minister, François Fillon, said victory for the left would unleash unstoppable speculation against the euro.
  • (5) The move has already unleashed howls of protests – not least among leftist opponents – who have accused the government of not only selling off the "family silver" but doing so at a time of market depression and rock-bottom prices.
  • (6) The work, The Spear, by Brett Murray, unleashed a brouhaha that has hogged headlines for more than a week in South Africa and earned that inexhaustible accolade "painting-gate".
  • (7) Imagine how much greater we would be if the dreams and talents of 40 million human beings were unleashed.” Stagnating social mobility is expected to be the central message of Obama's state of the union address later this month and defining issue of the 2014 mid-term elections.
  • (8) Collecting the fallout from a corner, Max Gradel unleashed a shot which might well have beaten Rob Elliot had it not deflected wide off Andrew Surman.
  • (9) It’s another sign of how dangerous Isis is – but it doesn’t change a lot.” Pentagon officials said they had seen no “confirmable link” indicating that Isis had unleashed a chemical attack on Aleppo.
  • (10) An input signal molecule arrives at the receiver gene and unleashes the activity of the enzymes which introduce in the DNA-histones system the electronic wave of excitation.
  • (11) He came out with the extraordinary line, "I lead to unleash your leadership", which seems to mean everything and nothing.
  • (12) Hamlet, the prototype of inaction, the man who thinks "too precisely on the event", and who, when he does act, unleashes a bloodbath.
  • (13) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
  • (14) In desperation, the deputy prime minister, Bülent Arinç, recently threatened to unleash the armed forces against the protesters.
  • (15) Age, sex, origin, duration of illness before attending the Institute, Conscience variations, clinical crisis types, condition of Status Epilepticus appearance and unleashing factors were considered.
  • (16) But, as the postal sector demonstrates all too clearly, an economic regulator can unleash a whirlwind.
  • (17) The case that Bagosora personally ordered the murder of Rwanda's prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and the killing of 10 Belgian peacekeepers, and then unleashed the genocide against the Tutsi minority was, the prosecutors claim, as important for the fact that it established an incontrovertible body of evidence for the planning and organisation of a genocide as it was for establishing its agent.
  • (18) Kadyrov has vehemently denied any involvement with the killings, issuing a statement this month saying that "ideologists of terrorism" had unleashed "a massive information war against the Chechen Republic and its leadership".
  • (19) What the papers say The Economist (for Obama) "A man who once personified hope and centrism set a new low by unleashing attacks on Mitt Romney even before the first Republican primary.
  • (20) Unarmed and unaware of the horror that was about to be unleashed on the island, Berntsen succeeded in protecting his 10-year-old son but could do nothing to save himself.

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