misrelease

English

Etymology

Verb

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

To release incorrectly, i.e. to release something that should not be released, or to release in the wrong way.
- 1965 November 23, Don Davis, “Talking Rock”, in The Tech, page 6:
  First, 17,000 copies of an unknown Dylan composition were misreleased in California under the title 'Positively 4th Street.'
- 1995, Coping with U.S. Export Controls, page 925:
  Should, for example, intentionally misreleasing or destroying a key be criminalized?
- 2006, Eva Zerovnik, Human Stefins and Cystatins, page 24:
  It is thus possible that they may meet different cystatins both in specific compartments where the cysteine protease activity should be carefully regulated and balanced by a reversible inhibitor (as perhaps is the case in endosomes at antigen presentation) and in disease when the enzymes may be misrouted or misreleased to the extracellular space.
- 2016 September 22, Vince Grzegorek, “Alleged Heroin Dealer Released From Cuyahoga County Jail Despite Federal Indictment”, in Cleveland Scene:
  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.

Noun

misrelease (countable and uncountable, plural misreleases)

The act of misreleasing.
- 1971, James S. Kunen, Standard Operating Procedure: Notes of a Draft-age American, page 178:
  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 .
- 1994, Japanese Journal of Tribology, volume 39, numbers 1-3, page 18:
  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.
- 2009, David Sander, Klaus Scherer, Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, page 299:
  According to Barlow (2002, pp. 106–7), panic constitutes intense fear—a false alarm involving the misrelease of the otherwise adaptive fight/flight response.
- 2019, Masaaki Kurosu, Human-Computer Interaction. Recognition and Interaction, page 323:
  When virtual hand grasps an object, the hand will inevitably shake slightly. The judgment rules allow this kind of shaking slightly, avoiding misrelease.
- 2020 October 23, “No excuse for Cuyahoga County’s silence on mistaken jail releases”, in Cleveland.com‎^[1]:
  Cleveland.com reporters received a tip about the Saturday misreleases.