free
IPA: frˈi
noun
- (soccer) A free transfer.
- (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
- (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick. [(American football, soccer, Australian rules football, rugby, other ballgames) a kick in which a player may kick the ball without interference from the opposition. Such a kick may be awarded for a foul by the opposition, or earned by a player such as by taking a mark.]
- (swimming, informal) Abbreviation of freestyle. [(sports) A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.]
verb
- (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.
- (transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
- (transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
adjective
- (social) Unconstrained.
- Not imprisoned or enslaved.
- Unconstrained by timidity or distrust
- Generous; liberal.
- (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
- Without obligations.
- Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed.
- Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; said of a government, institutions, etc.
- (software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
- (software) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
- Obtainable without any payment.
- (by extension, chiefly used in advertising) Complimentary.
- (abstract) Unconstrained.
- (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
- (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
- (programming) Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
- (linguistics) (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
- (physical) Unconstrained.
- Unobstructed, without blockages.
- Unattached or uncombined.
- Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
- (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
- (military) Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.
- Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
- (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
- (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
- (UK, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
- (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
adverb
- Without needing to pay.
- (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
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Examples of "free" in Sentences
- Admittance to the event is free.
- Free licenses are not revocable.
- It definetly was not epicycle free.
- Free is the opposite of proprietary.
- The delivery of the news is free of charge and free of advertisement.
- Her financial acumen became the basis for an independent and free life.
- The free ends of the legs are bent inwardly and extend toward each other.
- There are two implications to the concept of the free independent traveler.
- Proteolytic cleavage frees it to move through the cytoplasm to the nucleus.
- And they may take it as they please -- my soul is free -- _free_ once again!
- Gases always intermix since free molecules will always move into empty space.
- _Enter_ Ravensburg, _hastily, in the dress of a free knight, with a paper in his hand, followed by two free_ knights.
- So I sat, and I thought what such a thing would mean to me -- it would make my reputation in a day -- I should be free -- _free_!
- Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a free territory with his master.
- The three months have expired, and I am once more a free American citizen, and for the first time in my life I know what it is to be _free_.
- When you use your right of free speech to insult, or degrade someone because of their race, gender or political stance, itis longer * free* speech.
- It was not a free life and it could not be a true life, for they all believed in the motto, "The _truth_ shall make you _free_," and instead of freedom, the "Communities" used mental constraint and tyranny to hold themselves together.
- Since that day, many have been the demonstrations of grateful joy and gladness on the glorious anniversary of the emancipation of slaves on the West India Islands; and yet, in this boasted "land of the free, and home of the brave;" this famous and declared _free_ Republic, -- the
- I have to live my life not just for myself, but for Sage, Zara and Bliss. and take comfort in the realization that half of our earthbound life is spent in dreams, and that is where I am free to run and play ~with two little girls and a boy~ That ~are~ always with me. shhh, this is my dream. this is me, being set free~ old starlight - new starbright
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