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35 Definitions of: free
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- adjective, able to act at will; not under compulsion or restraint
- adjective, a) having personal rights or liberty; not enslaved or confined b) (as noun)
- adjective, not subject (to) or restricted (by some regulation, constraint, etc); exempt
- adjective, (of a country, etc) autonomous or independent
- adjective, exempt from external direction or restriction; not forced or induced
- adjective, not subject to conventional constraints
- adjective, (of jazz) totally improvised, with no preset melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic basis
- adjective, not exact or literal
- adjective, costing nothing; provided without charge
- adjective, law a) not subject to payment of rent or performance of services; freehold b) not subject to any burden or charge, such as a mortgage or lien; unencumbered
- adjective, ready or generous in using or giving; liberal; lavish
- adjective, unrestrained by propriety or good manners; licentious
- adjective, not occupied or in use; available
- adjective, not occupied or busy; without previous engagements
- adjective, open or available to all; public
- adjective, without charge to the subscriber or user
- adjective, not fixed or joined; loose
- adjective, without obstruction or impediment
- adjective, chem chemically uncombined
- adjective, phonetics denoting a vowel that can occur in an open syllable, such as the vowel in see as opposed to the vowel in cat
- adjective, grammar denoting a morpheme that can occur as a separate word. Compare bound
- adjective, logic denoting an occurrence of a variable not bound by a quantifier. Compare bound
- adjective, (of some materials, such as certain kinds of stone) easily worked
- adjective, nautical (of the wind) blowing from the quarter
- adjective, for free without charge or cost
- adjective, free and easy casual or tolerant; easy-going
- adjective, feel free to regard oneself as having permission to perform a specified action
- adjective, make free with to take liberties with; behave too familiarly towards
- adverb, in a free manner; freely
- adverb, without charge or cost
- adverb, nautical with the wind blowing from the quarter
- verb, to set at liberty; release
- verb, to remove obstructions, attachments, or impediments from; disengage
- verb, to relieve or rid (of obstacles, pain, etc)
- noun, a freesheet
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