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free

/fɹi/

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What does free mean?

adjective

  1. Unconstrained.
  2. Not imprisoned or enslaved.
  3. Generous; liberal.
More meanings (38)

adjective

  1. Without obligations.
  2. To be enjoyed by anyone freely.
  3. Upholding individual rights.
  4. With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
  5. Intended for release, and omitting debugging diagnostics, as opposed to a checked version.
  6. Obtainable without any payment.
  7. Complimentary.
  8. Left adjoint to a forgetful functor G; such that any map f:X→G(A) induces a universal map ̄f:F(X)→A.
  9. Belonging to the image of some free functor.
  10. Having a set of generators which satisfy no non-trivial relations; equivalently, being the group of reduced words on a set of generators.
  11. Having a linearly independent set of generators (called a basis).
  12. Unconstrained by quantifiers.
  13. Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
  14. (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
  15. Unobstructed, without blockages.
  16. Unattached or uncombined.
  17. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
  18. Not attached; loose.
  19. Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.
  20. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
  21. Privileged or individual; proprietary.
  22. (slang) Having oversteer.
  23. (obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
  24. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
  25. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
  26. (obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.

adverb

  1. Without needing to pay.
  2. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.

verb

  1. To make free; set at liberty; release.
  2. To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
  3. To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

noun

  1. Abbreviation of free kick.
  2. A free transfer.
  3. The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
  4. (informal) Abbreviation of freestyle.

numeral

  1. Pronunciation spelling of three

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.
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Here was poor old Terry fondly imagining that at last he was free to stray in “a rosebud garden of girls”--and behold!
Charlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandProject Gutenberg ebook #32
The shrunken white organdie rose and fell as if she were struggling to be free and to break out of it altogether.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
More book examples (3)
And Dorothy oiled them and the Scarecrow bent them carefully until they were quite free from rust and as good as new.
L. Frank (Lyman Frank) BaumThe Wonderful Wizard of OzProject Gutenberg ebook #55
It increased in violence until it was as if an animal was within and was kicking and tumbling furiously to be free.
Stephen CraneThe Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil WarProject Gutenberg ebook #73
“Yes, they talk like that, all the time. I’ve heard ’em say that if he was to get free they’d lynch him.”
Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteProject Gutenberg ebook #74