foul shot free throw penalty free throw charity toss charity throw charity shot | an unhindered basketball shot from the foul line, given to penalize the other team for committing a foul |
free kick | (soccer) a place kick that is allowed for a foul or infringement by the other team |
extramarital sex free love | sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another |
free time spare time | time that is free from duties or responsibilities |
free trade | international trade free of government interference |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
brawl free-for-all | a noisy fight in a crowd |
amnesty pardon free pardon | the formal act of liberating someone |
freetail free-tailed bat freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
free house | a public house that is not controlled by a brewery and so is free to sell different brands of beer and ale |
free throw lane | a lane on a basketball court extending from the end line to feet in front of the backboard, players may not enter this lane during a free throw |
weight free weight exercising weight | sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting, it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms |
grace grace of God free grace | (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God, God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners, there but for the grace of God go I |
free living | a lifestyle given to easy indulgence of the appetites |
drop dip fall free fall | a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity, a drop of points on the Dow Jones index, there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery, a dip in prices, when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall |
free will discretion | the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies |
free phagocyte | a phagocyte that circulates in the blood |
free nerve ending | microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor |
free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
nonparametric statistic distribution free statistic | a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
deism free thought | the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation |
free press | a press not restricted or controlled by government censorship regarding politics or ideology |
rural free delivery RFD | free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas |
free morpheme free form | a morpheme that can occur alone |
free verse vers libre | unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern |
free list | a list of commodities that are not subject to tariffs |
parenthesis-free notation | a notation for forming mathematical expressions that does not use parentheses to delimit components |
free fall | the ideal falling motion of something subject only to a gravitational field |
gluten-free diet | diet prescribed to treat celiac disease, eliminates such foods as wheat and rye and oats and beans and cabbage and turnips and cucumbers that are rich in gluten |
low-sodium diet low-salt diet salt-free diet | a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride), often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disorders |
free free people | people who are free, the home of the free and the brave |
Free French Fighting French | a French movement during World War II that was organized in London by Charles de Gaulle to fight for the liberation of France from German control and for the restoration of the republic |
Free World | antiommunist countries collectively |
Free Soil Party | a former political party in the United States, formed in to oppose the extension of slavery into the territories, merged with the Liberty Party in |
market economy free enterprise private enterprise laissez-faire economy | an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices |
free port | a port open on equal terms to all commercial vessels |
free port free zone | an area adjoining a port where goods that are intended for reshipment can be received and stored without payment of duties |
Free State Orange Free State | a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers, named Free State in |
free state | any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War |
Maryland Old Line State Free State MD | a Mid-Atlantic state, one of the original colonies |
free electron | electron that is not attached to an atom or ion or molecule but is free to move under the influence of an electric field |
free agent free spirit freewheeler | someone acting freely or even irresponsibly |
free agent | (sports) a professional athlete who is free to sign a contract to play for any team |
freelancer freelance free-lance free lance independent self-employed person | a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them |
free-liver | someone who gratifies physical appetites (especially for food and drink) with more than the usual freedom |
free trader | an advocate of unrestricted international trade |
energy free energy | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work, the units of energy are joules or ergs, energy can take a wide variety of forms |
free central placentation | where ovules develop on a central column in a compound ovary lacking septa or with septa at base only |
Morchella semilibera half-free morel cow's head | a morel with the ridged and pitted fertile portion attached to the stipe for about half its length |
free lunch | something acquired without effort or payment or obligation, there is no free lunch in politics or Hollywood |