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 |
positron emission tomography
PET | using a computerized radiographic technique to examine the metabolic activity in various tissues (especially in the brain) |
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 |
emission
emanation | the act of emitting, causing to flow forth |
freetail
free-tailed bat
freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
| field-emission microscope | electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid |
| 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 |
positron emission tomography scanner
PET scanner | a tomograph that produces cross-sectional Xays of metabolic processes in the body |
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 |
| emission | the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe) |
| 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 |