<B>relearn, </B>transitive verb, <B>-learned</B> or <B>-learnt,</B> <B>-learning.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to learn again. <BR> <I>Ex. We must relearn the lesson that St. Augustine is forever insisting upon (Charles Gore).</I> </DL>
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<B>releasability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> releasable property or quality. </DL>
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<B>releasable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be released. <BR> <I>Ex. One pound of uranium carries more releasable energy than 1500 tons of coal.</I> </DL>
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<B>release, </B>verb, <B>-leased,</B> <B>-leasing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to let go. <BR> <I>Ex. Release the catch and the box will open.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to let loose; set free. <BR> <I>Ex. She released him from his promise.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to relieve. <BR> <I>Ex. The nurse will be released from duty at seven o'clock. Release me from this life, From this intolerable agony! (Robert Southey).</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>to give up (as a legal right or claim). <DD><B> b. </B>to make over to another (property or interest). <DD><B> 5. </B>to permit to be published, shown, sold, or otherwise distributed. <BR> <I>Ex. to release a news dispatch, to release a motion picture.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Obsolete.) to pardon. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the act of letting go; setting free. <BR> <I>Ex. the release of strain from an engine. The end of the war brought the release of the prisoners.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>freedom; relief. <BR> <I>Ex. This medicine will give you a release from pain.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a part of a machine that sets other parts free to move. <BR> <I>Ex. Press the release and the turntable will begin to turn.</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>the legal surrender, such as of a right or estate, to another. <DD><B> b. </B>the document that does this. <DD><B> 5. </B>permission for publication, exhibition, sale, or other form of distribution. <BR> <I>Ex. Now in the final stages of editing, the two-hour picture is scheduled for midsummer release (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 6a. </B>an article, statement, or the like, distributed for publication. <BR> <I>Ex. a news release.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a phonograph record, motion picture, or other mechanical recording similarly released. <BR> <I>Ex. One of the most satisfying of the recent releases [is] his "Blues in Orbit" (Punch).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>(Phonetics.) the act or fact of breaking the closure in the articulation of a stop, as <I>b, t,</I> and <I>k</I> sounds. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Obsolete.) a pardon. </DL>
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<B>re-lease, </B>transitive verb, <B>-leased,</B> <B>-leasing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to lease again. </DL>
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<B>released time,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) time given up by public schools for religious education or other legally appointed instruction outside of school. <BR> <I>Ex. On Thursdays, the children at the elementary schools nearby are let out an hour early for released time (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>releasee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person to whom a release is given. <BR> <I>Ex. The University of Illinois concluded a study of the ... careers of prisoners released from federal institutions, finding among other things that the most significant factor in the success of releasees was their ability to obtain a job (Charles V. Bennett).</I> </DL>
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<B>releasement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of releasing; release. </DL>
<A NAME="releaser">
<B>releaser, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that releases. <BR> <I>Ex. the releasers of the prisoner, a releaser of news.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Ethology.) a stimulus that releases a specific response in another animal. <BR> <I>Ex. The baby waxbill's special food-begging notes are what we call 'releasers'--the signals, in other words, that make the mother waxbill feed her young (Konrad Z. Lorenz).</I> </DL>
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<B>releasing factor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a substance that triggers the release of hormones from an endocrine gland. <BR> <I>Ex. There appears to be a chemically distinct releasing factor for each of the six anterior pituitary hormones (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>relegable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be relegated. </DL>
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<B>relegate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-gated,</B> <B>-gating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to put away, usually to a lower position or condition. <BR> <I>Ex. to relegate a dress to the rag bag. We have not relegated religion (like something we were ashamed to show) to obscure municipalities or rustic villages (Edmund Burke).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to send into exile; banish. <DD><B> 3. </B>to hand over (as a matter or task). <DD><B> 4. </B>to refer (a person), as for information. </DL>
<A NAME="relegation">
<B>relegation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act of relegating or state of being relegated. </DL>
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<B>relend, </B>transitive verb, <B>-lent,</B> <B>-lending.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to lend again. </DL>
<A NAME="relent">
<B>relent, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to become less harsh or cruel; be more tender and merciful. <BR> <I>Ex. After hours of questioning the suspect, the police relented and allowed him to sleep a few hours. The captain at last relented, and told him that he might make himself at home (Herman Melville).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) to melt. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Obsolete.) <B>1. </B>to slacken. <DD><B> 2. </B>to soften in feeling. <DD><B> 3. </B>to make dissolve. </DL>
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<B>relentless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> without pity; not relenting; unyielding; harsh. <BR> <I>Ex. relentless determination. The storm raged with relentless fury.</I> (SYN) ruthless, implacable. adv. <B>relentlessly.</B> noun <B>relentlessness.</B> </DL>
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<B>relet, </B>transitive verb, <B>-let,</B> <B>-letting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to let anew, as a house. </DL>
<A NAME="relevance">
<B>relevance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or state of being relevant. <BR> <I>Ex. Today, however, reserve forces have lost much of their relevance, and the need is for men on the ground in peacetime (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>relevancy, </B>noun. =relevance.</DL>
<A NAME="relevant">
<B>relevant, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; to the point. <BR> <I>Ex. relevant questions. The witness' testimony is not relevant to the case.</I> (SYN) applicable, appropriate. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) purposeful; meaningful. <BR> <I>Ex. Pushkin and Chekhov were attacked for their failure to be "relevant" and engage (Atlantic). Museums should have a more involved or relevant public role (New York Times). The Walinsky campaign is energetic, relevant, and heavily financed (Time).</I> adv. <B>relevantly.</B> </DL>
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<B>releve, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) (in ballet) the raising of the body on the fully or partly pointed toe. </DL>
<A NAME="reliability">
<B>reliability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or state of being reliable; trustworthiness; dependability. <BR> <I>Ex. An employee has perfect reliability if he always does his work responsibly.</I> </DL>
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<B>reliable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> worthy of trust; that can be depended on. <BR> <I>Ex. reliable sources of news. Send him to the bank for money; he is a reliable boy.</I> noun <B>reliableness.</B> </DL>
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<B>reliably, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a reliable manner; to a reliable extent or degree. </DL>
<A NAME="reliance">
<B>reliance, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>trust or dependence. <BR> <I>Ex. A child has reliance on his mother.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>confidence. <BR> <I>Ex. His reliance on the products of that company was not justified by their claims of quality.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a thing on which one depends. </DL>
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<B>reliant, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>trusting or depending; relying. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=confident.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>relying on oneself; self-reliant. adv. <B>reliantly.</B> </DL>
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<B>relic, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thing, custom, or other remains, left from the past. <BR> <I>Ex. This ruined bridge is a relic of the Civil War. Another relic of colonialism in Macassar is the Grand Hotel (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something belonging to a holy person, kept as a sacred memorial. <DD><B> 3. </B>an object having interest because of its age or its associations with the past; keepsake; souvenir. <BR><I>expr. <B>relics,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>remains; ruins. </I> <I>Ex. It is only in this last period ... that we find the relics of the war chariot among the contents of the tomb (Daniel Wilson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Archaic.) the remains of a person; corpse. <BR> <I>Ex. How long he lived after that year, I cannot tell, nor where his relics were lodg'd (Anthony Wood).</I> </DL>
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<B>relict, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=relic.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. The Winchester bushel is the only existing relict of the old English system (J. Q. Adams).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a plant or animal surviving from an earlier period. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Geology.) a rock, feature, or structure which survives or persists after others have been replaced. <DD><B> 4. </B>a man's widow. <DD><I>adj. </I> remaining or surviving from an earlier period. <BR> <I>Ex. relict flora, relict rocks, relict permafrost.</I> </DL>
