frees

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.

An unincorporated community in Parish Grove Township, Benton County, Indiana, United States.

A surname.

(swimming, informal) Abbreviation of freestyle. [(sports) A sports event where competitors can choose their own method of participation.]

(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.]

verb

(transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.

(transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses. [with from]

(transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

adjective

(social) Unconstrained.

Not imprisoned or enslaved.

Generous; liberal.

Without obligations.

To be enjoyed by anyone freely.

(of a government, country) Upholding individual rights.

(software) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.

(software) Intended for release, and omitting debugging diagnostics, as opposed to a checked version.

Obtainable without any payment.

(by extension, chiefly used in advertising) Complimentary.

(abstract) Unconstrained.

(algebra, of an algebraic structure) In any of various technical senses generic, universal.

(category theory, of a functor F) Left adjoint to a forgetful functor G; such that any map f:X→G(A) induces a universal map ̄f:F(X)→A.

(category theory, of an object) Belonging to the image of some free functor.

(group theory, of a group) Having a set of generators which satisfy no non-trivial relations; equivalently, being the group of reduced words on a set of generators.

(commutative algebra, of a module) Having a linearly independent set of generators (called a basis).

(logic, of a variable) 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.

(law) Privileged or individual; proprietary.

(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.

(obsolete) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.

(UK, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.

adverb

Without needing to pay.

(obsolete) Freely; willingly.

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