(superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
(superl.) Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
(superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
(superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
(superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
(superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
(superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
(superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
(superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
(superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
(superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
(superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
(superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
(superl.) Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
(superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
(superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.
(superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
(superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
(superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
(adv.) Freely; willingly.
(adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.
(a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
(a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
(a.) To frank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(2) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(4) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(5) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
(7) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(8) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(9) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(10) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
(11) In Ca free-solution phenylephrine inhibited the response to CaCl2.
(12) The actuarial 5-year disease-free survival rates were 83% (group 1), 83% (group 2), and 100% (group 3).
(13) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
(14) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
(15) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(16) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
(17) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
(18) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
(19) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
(20) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
Unfreeze
Definition:
(v. t.) To thaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contents of water in mitochondria were increased significantly with the ratio of freezable water to unfreezable water unchanged.
(2) Mr Taub was summoned following the Israeli decisions to build 3,000 new housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, to unfreeze planning in the area known as E1 and to withhold tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority.
(3) Likewise significantly different limit values of unfreezable water Wu were reached for smaller Wt the greater the crosslinking of collagen.
(4) But the Guardian understands that the unfreezing of the aid was formally approved by the Department for International Development, the FCO and Downing Street.
(5) The remarks by Hague allowed the government to unfreeze £91m in UK assets belonging to the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, a Libyan oil firm under the NTC's control, which had been on an EU sanctions list.
(6) He said Britain would work to unfreeze regime assets, including £91m in oil company assets, and make them available to the NTC.
(7) Removal of unfreezable water of cells in the drying, therfore, might induce deoxyribonucleic acid strand breaks.
(8) Mitchell decided to unfreeze the aid to Rwanda last month, citing progress at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region under the chairmanship of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the president of Uganda.
(9) The unfreezable water capacity of "matzo" model crackers, as measured by DSC, ranged from ca.
(10) But the state of the body also meant the postmortem took longer because the pathologist had to wait for it to unfreeze naturally - a desperate delay for detectives wanting to know how and when Yeates died.
(11) Updated at 10.17am GMT 9.33am GMT Eurozone officials predict Greek delays The newswires are now buzzing with eurozone officials saying the decision on Greece's aid deal will be delayed until later this month: • REUTERS: SENIOR EU OFFICIAL SAYS UNLIKELY THAT EURO ZONE MINISTERS CAN TAKE FINAL DECISION ON UNFREEZING AID FOR GREECE ON MON, SECOND MEETING PROBABLY NEEDED DJ FX Trader (@djfxtrader) Very Possible There will be 2nd Round of Discussions on Greece-Euro Zone Official November 9, 2012 9.06am GMT An early bid for quote of the day... Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) "I'm very much looking forward to 1st boring #eurogroup .
(12) Draghi said the "non-standard measures" were aimed at helping to unfreeze lending to households and businesses.
(13) Staff development educators are instrumental as change agents in identifying the need for change, developing and implementing a strategic plan to unfreeze, change, and refreeze learning behavior, and evaluating its effectiveness.
(14) Britain and France would also press for a fresh UN security council resolution on Friday to unfreeze all Libyan assets, the prime minister said.
(15) Water behavior was assessed from high resolution [1H] nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin-spin relaxation studies and differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) measurements of unfreezable water content.
(16) Putin signed a decree on Monday to unfreeze the ban on delivering the $800m (£546m) contract for the Russian-made S-300 missiles as Moscow forged ahead with a $20bn oil-for-goods barter deal with Tehran.
(17) Currently the western offer consists of presidential waivers and the unfreezing of blocked Iranian assets in the west.
(18) But matching Labor’s commitments on things like unfreezing MBS indexation would blow a hole in the budget worth several billions over the forward estimates, unless the Coalition is now signalling an intention to drop its election commitments, like business tax cuts.
(19) The difference between the amount of water molecules that froze in calorimetry and the total amount of water detected by gas chromatography indicates the presence of unfreezable, tightly bound water molecules.
(20) Updated at 4.33pm GMT 3.49pm GMT Givat Hamatos While the decision to unfreeze development in the E1 area , is attracting particularly strong condemnation, because it would split the West Bank into two and isolate East Jerusalem, Israel is also set to give its final approval to "a new Jewish neighbourhood in south-east Jerusalem called Givat Hamatos, the first completely detached new Jewish neighbourhood over the Green Line since the construction of Har Homa in 1997".