releasern.
/rᵻˈliːsə/, U.S. /rəˈlisər/, /riˈlisər/ 1. A person who or thing which releases (in various senses); one who sets free. Cf. releasor n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [noun] > one who frees
releaser?a1475
freer1604
liberator1615
enfranchiser1632
Messiah1667
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 372 (MED) A, endles worchepe be to you, Jhesu, relesere of peyn.
1581 T. Lupton 2nd Pt. Too Good to be True sig. Cciv At the last day..Christ the generall releaser of all prysoners, shall sende the mercifull to heauen.
1651 J. French Art Distillation Ep. Ded. sig. A3 In the perfection of this Art..is the Sulphur of philosophers set at liberty, which gratifies the releasers thereof with three kingdomes.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. viii. 125 (Honour'd Releaser said,) Command what is Fecible.
1763 W. Hammond Evangelism delivered at Battel 13 They do not know our Releaser, and have not experienc'd the Power of his Blood upon their Hearts.
?1790 J. Stonhouse Apostolical Conceptions of God: 2nd Pt. iii. 66 The term captivity purports, first a captive; secondly, his releaser; and thirdly, a party relinquishing his claim.
1810 J. Kennedy Glenochel II. 47 He met his rough releaser death.
1852 Times 17 Nov. 5/6 He will go..from his prison at Amboise last remembered by the visit of his releaser.
1953 Philos. Rev. 62 650 The host..protests against excessive rationalism in our view of religion and defends it..as the releaser of enthusiasm in life.
1960 Times 9 Dec. 15 Releasers at seaside towns of [storm-driven sea] birds sent by passenger train.
1996 High Country News 16 Sept. 1/2 The Magnesium Corp... has earned the distinction of being..the country's largest releaser of chlorine.
2005 Independent (Nexis) 5 Feb. (Business section) 4 Equity releasers who use the cash in their homes to fund life's extras.
2. In dairy farming: a device on a milking machine which removes milk from the vessel in which it accumulates.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > dairy farming > [noun] > milking > milking machinery or apparatus
milk tube1839
siphon1844
tapper1884
pulsator1907
releaser1913
inflation-rubber1950
milk line1950
1913 Marshfield (Wisconsin) Times 5 Nov. 11/5 In Australia..insanitary and primitive methods of handling milk are being abandoned for appliances that perform the various operations... One of these..is the milk releaser.
1925 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 13 Nov. 7/1 The..‘releaser’..takes the place of pails into which the milk might otherwise be drawn.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Oct. 369 Up-to-date assembly of releaser, cream separator, skimmed-milk pump, and cream cooler.
1967 Harvey & Hill Milk (ed. 4) xiii. 224 Where milk pipe-lines are provided to transmit the milk directly to the dairy,..a releaser is required to remove the milk from the system.
2000 J. R. Gillespie Mod. Livestock & Poultry Production (ed. 6) ix. xlv. 939 Differential vacuum milk releasers are sometimes used. However, they create a demand for more vacuum in the system.
3. Zoology and Psychology. An external stimulus (visual, auditory, olfactory, etc.) that elicits a particular behavioural response in an individual receiving it, typically as a mode of interaction between members of the same species. Cf. primer n.2 3c, sign stimulus n. at sign n. Compounds 2. Frequently attributive.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > external influences > [noun] > sign stimulus
sign stimulus1934
releaser1935
social releaser1948
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > stimulus > [noun]
stimulus1894
releaser1935
input1954
1935 Bird-banding 6 146 Display behavior and bright plumage (Prachtkleider) are to be considered as typical ‘releasers’.
1937 K. Lorenz in Auk 54 249 All such devices for the issuing of releasing stimuli, I have termed releasers (Auslöser), regardless of whether the releasing factor be optical or acoustical, whether an act, a structure or a color.
1953 N. Tinbergen Herring Gull's World xxii. 208 The red patch on the bill seems to be a genuine social releaser.
1958 D. Rapaport tr. H. Hartmann Ego Psychol. & Probl. of Adaptation ii. 35 The question is whether, and to what extent, a certain course of development can count on average expectable stimulations (environmental releasers).
1963 E. O. Wilson & W. H. Bossert in Recent Progress Hormone Res. 19 674 We propose to distinguish the releaser effect, involving the classical stimulus-response mediated wholly by the central nervous system, from the primer effect, in which the endocrine and reproductive..systems are altered physiologically.
1988 Nature 21 July 244/1 The songs that trigger wing strokes are in turn highly effective releasers of copulatory postures.
1996 Child Devel. 67 1940/1 In infant-adult interactions the direction of gaze may serve as a ‘releaser’ for initiating (gaze toward) and terminating (averted gaze) social interactions.
Compounds
General attributive (in sense 2) as releaser pump, releaser room, releaser tank, etc.
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1918 Comm. Rep. (U.S. Bureau Foreign & Domestic Commerce) 23 May 734 The type [of system] which delivers the milk into the releaser tank from one or more milking machines.
1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 378/1 Probably the most important part of any milking shed is the releaser room, as it is here that milk or cream can most easily become affected by unsatisfactory conditions.
1967 W. C. Harvey & H. Hill Milk: Production & Control (ed. 4) xiii. 224 Sufficient milk accumulates in the releaser jar which operates valves which seal off the vacuum system and allow the milk to be discharged.
1977 D. N. Akam in C. C. Thiel & F. H. Dodd Machine Milking iii. 82 A design of diaphragm releaser milk pump that is available in the UK is vacuum driven using a pulsator operating at 50 pulsations/min.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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