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Free Definition–adjective | 1. | enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people. | | 2. | pertaining to or reserved for those who enjoy personal liberty: They were thankful to be living on free soil. | | 3. | existing under, characterized by, or possessing civil and political liberties that are, as a rule, constitutionally guaranteed by representative government: the free nations of the world. | | 4. | enjoying political autonomy, as a people or country not under foreign rule; independent. | | 5. | exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc., as a person or one's will, thought, choice, action, etc.; independent; unrestricted. | | 6. | able to do something at will; at liberty: free to choose. | | 7. | clear of obstructions or obstacles, as a road or corridor: The highway is now free of fallen rock. | | 8. | not occupied or in use:
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I'll try to phone her again if the line is free. | | 9. | exempt or released from something specified that controls, restrains, burdens, etc. (usually fol. by from or of): free from worry; free of taxes. | | 10. | having immunity or being safe (usually fol. by from): free from danger. | | 11. | provided without, or not subject to, a charge or payment: free parking; a free sample. | | 12. | given without consideration of a return or reward: a free offer of legal advice. | | 13. | unimpeded, as motion or movement; easy, firm, or swift. | | 14. | not held fast; loose; unattached: to get one's arm free. | | 15. | not joined to or in contact with something else: The free end of the cantilever sagged. | | 16. | acting without self-restraint or reserve: to be too free with one's tongue. | | 17. | ready or generous in giving; liberal; lavish: to be free with one's advice. | | 18. | given readily or in profusion; unstinted. | | 19. | frank and open; unconstrained, unceremonious, or familiar. | | 20. | unrestrained by decency; loose or licentious: free behavior. | | 21. | not subject to special regulations, restrictions, duties, etc.: The ship was given free passage. | | 22. | of, pertaining to, or characterized by free enterprise: a free economy. | | 23. | that may be used by or is open to all: a free market. | | 24. | engaged in by all present; general: a free fight. | | 25. | not literal, as a translation, adaptation, or the like; loose. | | 26. | uncombined chemically: free oxygen. | | 27. | traveling without power; under no force except that of gravity or inertia: free flight. | | 28. | Phonetics. (of a vowel) situated in an open syllable (opposed to checked ). | | 29. | at liberty to enter and enjoy at will (usually fol. by of): to be free of a friend's house. | | 30. | not subject to rules, set forms, etc.: The young students had an hour of free play between classes. | | 31. | easily worked, as s
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tone, land, etc. | | 32. | Mathematics. (of a vector) having specified magnitude and direction but no specified initial point. Compare bound 1 (def. 9). | | 33. | Also, large. Nautical. (of a wind) nearly on the quarter, so that a sailing vessel may sail free. | | 34. | not containing a specified substance (often used in combination): a sugar-free soft drink. | | 35. | (of a linguistic form) occurring as an independent construction, without necessary combination with other forms, as most words. Compare bound 1 (def. 11). | | 36. | without cost, payment, or charge. | –adverb | 37. | in a free manner; freely. | | 38. | Nautical. away from the wind, so that a sailing vessel need not be close-hauled: running free. | –verb (used with object) | 39. | to make free; set at liberty; release from bondage, imprisonment, or restraint. | | 40. | to exempt or deliver (usually fol. by from). | | 41. | to relieve or rid (usually fol. by of): to free oneself of responsibility. | | 42. | to disengage; clear (usually fol. by from or of). | —Verb phrase | 43. | free up, | a. | to release, as from restrictions: Congress voted to free up funds for the new highway system. | | b. | to disentangle: It took an hour to free up the traffic jam. | | —Idioms | 44. | for free, Informal. without charge: The tailor mended my jacket for free. | <
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table class="luna-Ent"> | 45. | free and clear, Law. without any encumbrance, as a lien or mortgage: They owned their house free and clear. | | | 46. | free and easy, | a. | unrestrained; casual; informal. | | b. | excessively or inappropriately casual; presumptuous. | | | 47. | make free with, | a. | to use as one's own; help oneself to: If you make free with their liquor, you won't be invited again. | | b. | to treat with too much familiarity; take liberties with. | | | 48. | set free, to release; liberate; free: The prisoners were set free. | | 49. | with a free hand, generously; freely; openhandedly: He entertains visitors with a free hand. | | From Dictionary
Home Definition–noun | 1. | a house, apartment, or other shelter that is the usual residence of a person, family, or household. | | 2. | the place in which one's domestic affections are centered. | | 3. | an institution for the homeless, sick, etc.: a nursing home. | | 4. | the dwelling place or retreat of an animal. | | 5. | the place or region where something is native or most common. | | 6. | any place of residence or refuge: a heavenly home. | | 7. | a person's native place or own country. | | 8. | (in games) the destination or goal. | | 9. | a principal base of operations or activities: The new stadium will be the home of the local football team. | | 11. | Lacrosse. one of three attack positions nearest the opposing goal. | –adjective | 12. | of, pertaining to, or connected with one's home or country; domestic: home products. | | 13. | principal or main: the corporation's home office. | | 14. | reaching the mark aimed at: a home thrust. | | 15. | Sports. played in a ball park, arena, or the like, that is or is assumed to b
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e the center of operations of a team: The pitcher didn't lose a single home game all season. Compare away (def. 11). | –adverb | 16. | to, toward, or at home: to go home. | | 17. | deep; to the heart: The truth of the accusation struck home. | | 18. | to the mark or point aimed at: He drove the point home. | | 19. | Nautical. | a. | into the position desired; perfectly or to the greatest possible extent: sails sheeted home. | | b. | in the proper, stowed position: The anchor is home. | | c. | toward its vessel: to bring the anchor home. | | –verb (used without object) | 20. | to go or return home. | | 21. | (of guided missiles, aircraft, etc.) to proceed, esp. under control of an automatic aiming mechanism, toward a specified target, as a plane, missile, or location (often fol. by in on): The missile homed in on the target. | | 22. | to navigate toward a point by means of coordinates other than those given by altitudes. | | 23. | to have a home where specified; reside. | –verb (used with object) | 24. | to bring or send home. | | 25. | to provide with a home. | | 26. | to direct, esp. under control of an automatic aiming device, toward an airport, target, etc. | —Idioms | 27. | at home, | a. | in one's own house or place of residence. | | b. | in one's own town or country. | | c. | prepared or willing to receive social visits: Tell him I'm not at home. We are always at home to her. | | d. | in a situation familiar to one; at ease: She has a way of making everyone feel at home. | | e. | well-informed; proficient: to be at home in the classics. | | f. | played in one's hometown or on one's own grounds: The Yankees played two games at home and one away. | | | 28. | bring home to, to make evident to; clarify or emphasize for: The irrevocability of her decision was brought home to her. | | 29. | home and dry, British Informal. having safely achieved one's goal. | | 30. | home free, | a. | assured of finishing, accomplishing, succeeding, etc.: If we can finish more than half the work today, we'll be home free. | <
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table class="luna-Ent"> | | b. | certain to be successfully finished, accomplished, secured, etc.: With most of the voters supporting it, the new law is home free. | | | 31. | write home about, to comment especially on; remark on: The town was nothing to write home about. His cooking is really something to write home about. | | From Dictionary
Base Definition–noun | 1. | the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table. | | 2. | a fundamental principle or groundwork; foundation; basis: the base of needed reforms. | | 3. | the bottom layer or coating, as of makeup or paint. | | 4. | Architecture. | a. | the distinctively treated portion of a column or pier below the shaft or shafts. | | b. | the distinctively treated lowermost portion of any construction, as a monument, exterior wall, etc. | | | 5. | Botany, Zoology. | a. | the part of an organ nearest its point of attachment. | <
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/table> | b. | the point of attachment. | | 6. | the principal element or ingredient of anything, considered as its fundamental part: face cream with a lanolin base; paint with a lead base. | | 7. | that from which a commencement, as of action or reckoning, is made; a starting point or point of departure. | | 8. | Baseball. | a. | any of the four corners of the diamond, esp. first, second, or third base. Compare home plate. | | b. | a square canvas sack containing sawdust or some other light material, for marking first, second, or third base. | | | 9. | a starting line or point for runners, racing cars, etc. | | 10. | (in hockey and other games) the goal. | | 11. | Military. | a. | a fortified or more or less protected area or place from which the operations of an army or an air force proceed. | | b. | a supply installation for a large military force. | | | 12. | Geometry. the line or surface forming the part of a figure that is most nearly horizontal or on which it is supposed to stand. | | 13. | Mathematics. | a. | the number that serves as a starting point for a logarithmic or other numerical system. | | b. | a collection of subsets of a topological space having the property that every open set in the given topology can be written as the union of sets of the collection. | | c. | a collection of neighborhoods of a point such that every neighborhood of the point contains one from the collection. | | d. | a collection of sets of a given filter such that every set in the filter is contained in some set in the collection. | | | 14. | Also called base line. Surveying. See under triangulation (def. 1). | | 15. | Painting. | b. | Also called carrier. inert matter, used in the preparation of lakes, onto which a coloring compound is precipitated. | | | 16. | Photography. a thin, flexible layer of cellulose triacetate or similar material that holds the light-sensitive film emulsion and other coatings, esp. on motion-picture film. | | 17. | Chemistry. | a. | a compound that reacts with an acid to form a salt, as ammonia, calcium hydroxide, or certain nitrogen-containing organic compounds. |
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| b. | the hydroxide of a metal or of an electropositive element or group. | | c. | a group or molecule that takes up or accepts protons. | | d. | a molecule or ion containing an atom with a free pair of electrons that can be donated to an acid; an electron-pair donor. | | e. | any of the purine and pyrimidine compounds found in nucleic acids: the purines adenine and guanine and the pyrimidines cytosine, thymine, and uracil. | | | 18. | Grammar. the part of a complex word, consisting of one or more morphemes, to which derivational or inflectional affixes may be added, as want in unwanted or biolog- in biological. Compare root 1 (def. 11), stem 1 (def. 16). | | 19. | Linguistics. the component of a generative grammar containing the lexicon and phrase-structure rules that generate the deep structure of sentences. | | 20. | Electronics. | a. | an electrode or terminal on a transistor other than the emitter or collector electrodes or terminals. | | b. | the part of an incandescent lamp or electron tube that includes the terminals for making electrical connection to a circuit or power supply. | | | 21. | Stock Exchange. the level at which a security ceases a decline in price. | | 22. | Heraldry. the lower part of an escutcheon. | | 23. | bases, Armor. a tonlet formed of two shaped steel plates assembled side by side. | | 25. | in base, Heraldry. in the lower part of an escutcheon. | –adjective | 26. | serving as or forming a base: The walls will need a base coat and two finishing coats. | –verb (used with object) | 27. | to make or form a base or foundation for. | | 28. | to establish, as a fact or conclusion (usually fol. by on or upon): He based his assumption of her guilt on the fact that she had no alibi. | <
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tr> | 29. | to place or establish on a base or basis; ground; found (usually fol. by on or upon): Our plan is based on a rising economy. | | 30. | to station, place, or situate (usually fol. by at or on): He is based at Fort Benning. The squadron is based on a carrier. | –verb (used without object) | 31. | to have a basis; be based (usually fol. by on or upon): Fluctuating prices usually base on a fickle public's demand. | | 32. | to have or maintain a base: I believe they had based on Greenland at one time. | —Idioms | 34. | off base, | a. | Baseball. not touching a base: The pitcher caught him off base and, after a quick throw, he was put out by the second baseman. | | b. | Informal. badly mistaken: The police were way off base when they tried to accuse her of the theft. | | | 35. | on base, Baseball. having reached a base or bases: Two men are on base. | | 36. | touch base with, to make contact with: They've touched base with every political group on campus. | | From DictionaryBusiness Definition–noun | 1. | an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming. | | 2. | the purchase and sale of goods in an attempt to make a profit. | | 3. | a person, partnership, or corporation engaged in commerce, manufacturing, or a service; profit-seeking enterprise or concern. | | 4. | volume of trade; patronage: Most of the store's business comes from local families. | | 5. | a building or site where commercial work is carried on, as a factory, store, or office; place of work: His business is on the corner of Broadway and Elm Street. | | 6. | that with which a person is principally and seriously concerned: Words are a writer's business. | | 7. | something with which a person is rightfully concerned: What they are doing is none of my business. | | 8. | affair; project: We were exasperated by the whole business. | | 9. | an assignment or task; chore: It's your business to wash the dishes now. | | 10. | Also called piece of business, stage business. Theater. a movement or gesture, esp. a minor one, used by an actor to give expressiveness, drama, detail, etc., to a scene or to help portray a character. | | 11. | excrement: used as a euphemism. | –adjective | 12. | of, noting, or pertaining to business, its organization, or its procedures. | | 13. | containing, suitable for, or welcoming business or commerce: New York is a good business town. | —Idiom
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s | 14. | business is business, profit has precedence over personal considerations: He is reluctant to fire his friend, but business is business. | | 15. | do one's business, (usually of an animal or child) to defecate or urinate: housebreaking a puppy to do his business outdoors. | | 16. | get down to business, to apply oneself to serious matters; concentrate on work: They finally got down to business and signed the contract. | | 17. | give someone the business, Informal. | a. | to make difficulties for someone; treat harshly: Instead of a straight answer they give him the business with a needless run-around. | | b. | to scold severely; give a tongue-lashing to: The passengers will give the bus driver the business if he keeps driving so recklessly. | | | 18. | have no business, to have no right: You have no business coming into this house.
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| | 19. | mean business, to propose to take action or be serious in intent; be in earnest: By the fire in his eye we knew that he meant business. | | 20. | mind one's own business, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others: When he inquired about the noise coming from the neighbor's apartment, he was told to mind his own business. | |
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