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misrelease

misrelease verb: to release incorrectly, i.e. to release something that should not be released, or to release in the wrong way.

Verb

misrelease (third-person singular simple present misreleases, present participle misreleasing, simple past and past participle misreleased)

  1. To release incorrectly, i.e. to release something that should not be released, or to release in the wrong way.
    • First, 17,000 copies of an unknown Dylan composition were misreleased in California under the title 'Positively 4th Street.'1965 November 23, Don Davis, “Talking Rock”, in The Tech, page 6
    • Should, for example, intentionally misreleasing or destroying a key be criminalized?1995, Coping with U.S. Export Controls, page 925

Noun

misrelease (countable and uncountable, plural misreleases)

  1. The act of misreleasing.
    • I also want to correct a little misrelease in the press release: I was not attached ever to the 101st Regiment in Vietnam, the 541st Military Intelligence Detachment .1971, James S. Kunen, Standard Operating Procedure: Notes of a Draft-age American, page 178
    • This distance should ideally be 25-30 mm; when the elasticity is smaller than this value, frequent misrelease may occur, and , when it is larger, release may fail to take place.1994, Japanese Journal of Tribology, volume 39, numbers 1-3, page 18

Examples of misrelease in a sentence

  • Madigan says no such hold showed in this case, but officers don't always follow protocol and the Cuyahoga County jail has misreleased inmates before.2016 September 22, Vince Grzegorek, “Alleged Heroin Dealer Released From Cuyahoga County Jail Despite Federal Indictment”, in Cleveland...
  • According to Barlow (2002, pp. 106–7), panic constitutes intense fear—a false alarm involving the misrelease of the otherwise adaptive fight/flight response.2009, David Sander, Klaus Scherer, Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, page 299:
  • The judgment rules allow this kind of shaking slightly, avoiding misrelease.2019, Masaaki Kurosu, Human-Computer Interaction. Recognition and Interaction, page 323:
  • Cleveland.com reporters received a tip about the Saturday misreleases.2020 October 23, “No excuse for Cuyahoga County’s silence on mistaken jail releases”, in Cleveland.com:

Forms of misrelease

Verb
third-person singular presentmisreleases
present participlemisreleasing
past participlemisreleased
pastmisreleased
Noun
pluralmisreleases

Origin of misrelease

From mis- + release.

Questions about misrelease

What does misrelease mean?
Misrelease means to release incorrectly, i.e. to release something that should not be released, or to release in the wrong way.
How do you use misrelease in a sentence?
Madigan says no such hold showed in this case, but officers don't always follow protocol and the Cuyahoga County jail has misreleased inmates before.
What part of speech is misrelease?
Misrelease can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of misrelease?
The past tense of misrelease is misreleased.

Words near misrelease in the dictionary

  1. misrelations
  2. misrelay
  3. misrelayed
  4. misrelaying
  5. misrelays
  6. misrelease
  7. misreleased
  8. misreleases
  9. misreleasing
  10. misrelegate
  11. misrelegated

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