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 |
| fielder's choice | a play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter |
| free kick | (soccer) a place kick that is allowed for a foul or infringement by the other team |
choice
selection
option
pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
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 |
sailor'shoice sailors choice
Haemulon parra | a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico |
| 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 |
| method of choice | the best method to achieve a desired result |
| free association | a thought process in which ideas (words or images) suggest other ideas in a sequence |
choice
pick
selection | the person or thing chosen or selected, he was my pick for mayor |
option
alternative
choice | one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen, what option did I have?, there no other alternative, my only choice is to refuse |
| Hobson's choice | the choice of taking what is offered or nothing at all |
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 |
wording
diction
phrasing
phraseology
choice of words
verbiage | the manner in which something is expressed in words, use concise military verbiage- G.S.Patton |
| 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 |
choice morsel
tidbit
titbit | a small tasty bit of food |
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 |