free
part of speech
adjective (free, freer, freest); adverb (free, for free); verb (free, frees, freed, freeing)
meaning for a pupil
1) Free means it costs no money: you pay nothing for it. tree →
2) Free means not shut in or held: a free bird can fly where it wants. tree →
3) Free means not busy: free time is time with nothing you must do. tree →
4) Free means not being used: a free seat is empty. tree →
5) To free someone or something is to let it go or get it loose. tree →
6) Free from or free of means without something, like sugar-free or free from danger. tree →
7) To be free to do something means you are allowed to do it, with nobody stopping you. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A Hebrew servant went free in the seventh year without paying anything. Interpretation: Jewish law frees a Hebrew servant after six years and tells the master to give gifts when he leaves; this idea of release is tied to the Sabbatical year and to the freedom of Passover. In the primary lessons: Money in maths: an item that costs 0, as in «buy 2, get 1 free»; also free time to fill or count. In science and safety: free from germs, smoke-free. In stories: a trapped animal is freed, a prisoner goes free. Phrases: «for free», «free time», «set free», «free of charge», «feel free to», «sugar-free».
examples
- And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty; (Torah DEU.15.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. (Torah EXO.21.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- But if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free; (Torah EXO.21.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- Who hath sent out the wild ass free? (Writings JOB.39.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- 'I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the basket. (Writings PSA.81.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master. (Writings JOB.3.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Buy 3 pens and get 1 free. tree →
- Entry is free for children. tree →
- She has 2 hours of free time. tree →
- Every tenth coffee is free. tree →
- Is this seat free? tree →
- The kids set the frog free in the pond. tree →
- The firefighter freed the cat stuck in the tree. tree →
- Feel free to ask me a question. tree →
- This gum is sugar-free. tree →
note
A free item has price 0: count it in the things you get but not in the money paid. Trap: «buy 2 get 1 free» gives 3 items for the price of 2. Trap: «free time» is not money. Beware of «free» offers online that ask for your password or a parent's card: real free things do not need them. Comparatives freer, freest are rare.
In the corpora
- If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
- And when thou lettest him go free from thee, thou shalt not let him go empty;
- 'I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the basket.
- The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the peoples, and set him free.
- The small and great are there alike; and the servant is free from his master.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «free» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.