relief

Meanings

Noun

• The removal of stress or discomfort.
• The feeling associated with the removal of stress or discomfort.
• Release from a post or duty, as when replaced by another.
• The person who takes over a shift for another.
• Aid or assistance offered in time of need.
• Court-ordered compensation, aid, or protection, a redress.
• A lowering of a tax through special provisions; tax relief.
• A certain fine or composition paid by the heir of a tenant upon the death of the ancestor.
• A type of sculpture or other artwork in which shapes or figures protrude from a flat background.
• The apparent difference in elevation in the surface of a painting or drawing made noticeable by a variation in light or color.
• The difference of elevations on a surface.
• The supposed projection of a charge from the surface of a field, indicated by shading on the sinister and lower sides.

Adjective

• Characterized by surface inequalities.
• Of or used in letterpress.

Related

Similar words

• ease, alleviation, liss, respite
• ease, alleviation, liss
• stand-in, substitute, backup, fill-in
• embossing
• texture, topography

Origin

• From Old French relief ("assistance"), from Old French relever ("to relieve"), from Latin relevare ("to raise up, make light"). See also relieve.
• From Italian rilevare ("to raise"), from Latin relevare ("to raise").