dress vs release

dress

verb
  • To fit or prepare (something) for use; to render (something) suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready. 

  • To ornament (a ship) by hoisting the national colours at the peak and mastheads, and setting the jack forward; when "dressed full", the signal flags and pennants are added. 

  • To prepare (food) for cooking or eating, especially by seasoning it; specifically, to add a dressing or sauce (to food, especially a salad). 

  • To attire oneself for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner. 

  • To prepare (a set) by installing the props, scenery, etc. 

  • To attire (oneself or someone) for a particular (especially formal) occasion, or in a fashionable manner. 

  • To prepare, treat, or curry (animal hide or leather). 

  • To prepare the surface of (a material, usually lumber or stone). 

  • Of a sportsperson: to put on the uniform and have the equipment needed to play a sport. 

  • To prepare (an artificial fly) to be attached to a fish hook. 

  • Of a thing: to attain a certain condition after undergoing some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use. 

  • To arrange a display of goods in, or to decorate (a shop or shop window). 

  • To arrange or style (someone's hair). 

  • To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure. 

  • To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe. 

  • To remove chaff or impurities from (flour, grain, etc.) by bolting or sifting, winnowing, and other methods. 

  • To cut up (an animal or its flesh) for food; specifically (hunting), to remove the internal organs (of a game animal) shortly after it has been killed so that the carcass cools more quickly; to field dress. 

  • To design, make, or prepare costumes (for a play or other performance); also, to present (a production) in a particular costume style. 

  • To apply a dressing to or otherwise treat (a wound); (obsolete) to give (a wounded person) medical aid. 

  • To arrange (soldiers or troops) into proper formation; especially, to adjust (soldiers or troops) into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other; to align. 

  • To put on clothes. 

  • To allow one's penis to fall to one side or the other within one's trousers. 

  • To design, make, provide, or select clothes (for someone). 

  • Of soldiers or troops: to arrange into proper formation; especially, to form into straight lines and at a proper distance from each other. 

  • To adorn or ornament (something). 

  • Of an animal carcass: to have a certain quantity or weight after removal of the internal organs and skin; also, to have a certain appearance after being cut up and prepared for cooking. 

noun
  • The external appearance of something, especially if intended to give a positive impression; garb, guise. 

  • Apparel or clothing, especially when appropriate for a particular occasion, profession, etc. 

  • The external covering of an animal (for example, the feathers of a bird) or an object. 

  • An item of clothing (usually worn by a woman or young girl) which both covers the upper part of the body and includes a skirt below the waist. 

  • The appearance of an object after it has undergone some process or treatment to fit or prepare it for use; finish. 

release

verb
  • To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity 

  • To set free a chemical substance. 

  • To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain. 

  • To make available to the public. 

  • To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of. 

  • To free or liberate; to set free. 

  • (of a call) To hang up. 

  • 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 come out; be out. 

  • To discharge. 

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

noun
  • The act or manner of ending a sound. 

  • In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be used at intermediate sidings without telegraphic stations. 

  • The giving up of a claim, especially a debt. 

  • Anything recently released or made available (as for sale). 

  • A catch on a motor-starting rheostat, which automatically releases the rheostat arm and so stops the motor in case of a break in the field circuit. 

  • The catch on an electromagnetic circuit breaker for a motor, triggered in the event of an overload. 

  • The lever or button on a camera that opens the shutter to allow a photograph to be taken 

  • Orgasm. 

  • A kind of bridge used in jazz music. 

  • The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product; the distribution can be either public or private. 

  • The process by which a chemical substance is set free. 

  • The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked or stuck mechanisms). 

  • That which is released, untied or let go. 

  • Liberation from pain or suffering. 

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