Release vs. Deliver — What's the Difference?

To set free from confinement or bondage

To bring or transport to the proper place or recipient; distribute

To set free from physical restraint or binding; let go

To surrender (someone or something) to another; hand over

To cause or allow to move away or spread from a source or place of confinement

To secure (something promised or desired), as for a candidate or political party

To make available for use

To throw or hurl

To set free from obligations, commitments, or debt

To strike (a blow).

To relieve of care or suffering

To express in words; declare or utter

To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution

To give birth to

To make known or available

To assist or aid in the birth of

(Law) To surrender (a right, claim, or title).

To assist (a woman) in giving birth

Deliverance or liberation, as from confinement.

To give forth or produce

Discharge from an obligation or commitment.

To set free, as from captivity, peril, or evil

Relief from suffering or care.

To set free from restraint or danger.

An unfastening or letting go, as of something caught or held fast.

(process) To do with birth.

(Sports) The action of throwing a ball or propelling a puck

To assist in the birth of.

(Linguistics) The movement of a vocal organ or organs so as to end the closure of a stop consonant.

To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

A device or catch for locking or releasing a mechanism.

To give birth to.

The act or an instance of issuing something for publication, use, or distribution.

To free from or disburden of anything.

Something thus issued

To bring or transport something to its destination.

The condition of being available, in use, or in publication

To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

The surrender of a right, title, or claim, especially to one against whom the right, title, or claim would be enforced or exercised.

To produce what is expected or required.

The document attesting to such surrender.

To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.

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

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

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

To discover; to show.

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

(medicine) To administer a drug.

That which is released, untied or let go.

(rare) Capable, agile, or active.

(legal) The giving up of a claim, especially a debt.

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; - often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.

Liberation from pain or suffering.

To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; - often with up or over, to or into.

(biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.

To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.

The act or manner of ending a sound.

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.

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

To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; - often with of.

A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.

To discover; to show.

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.

To deliberate.

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

To admit; to allow to pass.

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

Free; nimble; sprightly; active.

Orgasm.

Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea);

(music) A kind of bridge used in jazz music.

Bring to a destination, make a delivery;

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

To surrender someone or something to another;

To make available to the public.

Free from harm or evil

To free or liberate; to set free.

Hand over to the authorities of another country;

To discharge.

Pass down;

(telephone) of a call To hang up.

Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.);

(legal) 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.

Save from sins

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

Carry out or perform;

(soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity

Relinquish possession or control over;

(biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.

Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;

(intransitive) to come out; be out.

Give birth (to a newborn);

(transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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

To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.

To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.

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 loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance.

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.

Relief from care, pain, or any burden.

Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.

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.

The act of opening the exhaust port to allow the steam to escape.

A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required;

The act or manner of ending a sound.

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

Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film);

The act of liberating someone or something

A process that liberates or discharges something;

An announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Euphemistic expressions for death;

A legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

Activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion;

The act of allowing a fluid to escape

A formal written statement of relinquishment

(music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

Release, as from one's grip;

Grant freedom to; free from confinement

Let (something) fall or spill a container;

Eliminate (substances) from the body

Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale;

Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids;

Make (information) available publication;

Part with a possession or right;

Make (assets) available;