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Component Semantics:
- Release
- Definition: allow an object to be moved out of its enclosure
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: a Tangible-Entity
- Required slot: location
- Restriction: is inside an enclosure
- Required slot: pre-conditions
- Restriction: object is the object of a
Be-Confined whose location is the Place
inside the enclosure
- Required slot: post-conditions
- Restriction: object is not the object of a
Be-Confined whose location is the Place
inside the enclosure
- Primary slot: agent
- Inherited from: Unobstruct
- Restriction: causes object to be Released
- Primary slot: instrument
- Inherited from: Unobstruct
- Restriction: the thing used to release the object
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: release#3
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: turn#13
In order to Release an object from an enclosure, it must already
be inside the enclosure and be the object of a state
Be-Confined with location inside the
enclosure.
(An object is put into a Be-Confined by the
Confine action).
Other Senses:
- release2
- Definition: let go of
- Transitivity: transitive
- release3
- Definition: liberate
- Transitivity: transitive
- release4
- Definition: publish
- Transitivity: transitive
- release5
- Definition: eject
- Transitivity: transitive
- release6
- Definition: relinquish/make available
- Transitivity: transitive
Reference: COBUILD
Reference: LDOCE
Reference: NODE
Reference: WordNet1.6
- WNrelease#1
- Equivalent: release2
- WNrelease#2
- Equivalent: release3
- WNrelease#3
- Equivalent: release1
- WNrelease#4
- Equivalent: release4
- WNrelease#5
- Equivalent: release5
- WNrelease#6
- Equivalent: release5
- WNrelease#7
- Equivalent: release4
- WNrelease#8
- Equivalent: release6
- WNrelease#9
- Equivalent: release6