free

UK /fɹiː/ US /fɹi/
adj 5noun 4verb 3adv 2name 2

Definitions

adj

1

Unconstrained.

He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.

Quickly, spirit! / Thou shalt ere long be free.

2

Unconstrained.

Free Blacks

a free man

3

Unconstrained.

He's very free with his money.

4

Unconstrained.

My hands are guilty, but my heart is free.

5

Unconstrained.

free time

adv

1

Without needing to pay.

I got this bike free.

Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.

2

Freely; willingly.

I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.

verb

1

To make free; set at liberty; release.

Pro.[…]Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this.

Liberia was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society whose goal was to resettle freed slaves in Africa.

2

To rid of something that confines or oppresses.

Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil."

3

To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends.

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