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.
- Gases always intermix since free molecules will always move into empty space.