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free

The English word “free” has 36 meanings listed here.

  1. Unconstrained.
  2. Not imprisoned or enslaved.
  3. Generous; liberal.
  4. Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
  5. Without obligations.
  6. To be enjoyed by anyone freely.
  7. Upholding individual rights.
  8. With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
  9. Intended for release, and omitting debugging diagnostics, as opposed to a checked version.
  10. Complimentary.
  11. In any of various technical senses generic, universal.
  12. Left adjoint to a forgetful functor G; such that any map f:X→G(A) induces a universal map ̄f:F(X)→A.
  13. Belonging to the image of some free functor.
  14. Having a set of generators which satisfy no non-trivial relations; equivalently, being the group of reduced words on a set of generators.
  15. Having a linearly independent set of generators (called a basis).
  16. Unconstrained by quantifiers.
  17. Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
  18. (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
  19. Unobstructed, without blockages.
  20. Unattached or uncombined.
  21. Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
  22. Not attached; loose.
  23. Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.
  24. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
  25. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
  26. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
  27. Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
  28. Privileged or individual; proprietary.
  29. Having oversteer.
  30. Without needing to pay.
  31. Freely; willingly.
  32. To make free; set at liberty; release.
  33. To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
  34. To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
  35. A free transfer.
  36. The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
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