Deliver vs Free - What's the difference?
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To set free.
(label) To do with birth.
# To give birth.
# To assist in the birth of.
# To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).
#* Gower
(label) To free from or disburden of anything.
* (Henry Peacham) (1578-c.1644)
To bring or transport something to its destination.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
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To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
* Bible, (w) xl. 13
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
To express in words, declare, or utter.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 27, author=Nathan Rabin, work=The Onion AV Club
, title= To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
To discover; to show.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To admit; to allow to pass.
(label) Unconstrained.
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, title=, chapter=1
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
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, passage=Policing the relationship between government and business in a free society is difficult. Businesspeople have every right to lobby governments, and civil servants to take jobs in the private sector.}}
# Not imprisoned or enslaved.
# Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; frank; communicative.
#* Milward
# Generous; liberal.
# (label) Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# Without obligations.
# 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.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# 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.
# (label) With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
# (label) Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version.
Obtainable without any payment.
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# Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.
(label) Unconstrained.
# (label) Unconstrained by relators.
# Unconstrained by quantifiers.
# (label) Of identifiers, not bound.
# That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
(label) Unconstrained.
# Unobstructed, without blockages.
# Unattached or uncombined.
# Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
# Not attached; loose.
#*
Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
* (w) (1635?-1715)
*
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, passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}
(label) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
(label) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of .
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
Certain or honourable; the opposite of base .
(label) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common .
Without needing to pay.
(obsolete) Freely; willingly.
* Shakespeare
To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.
(Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
* 2006 , [http://footballlegends.org/daryn_cresswell.htm]:
free transfer
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, year=2011
, date=September 21
, author=Sam Lyon
, title=Man City 2 - 0 Birmingham
, work=BBC Sport
, url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14910208.stm
, page=
, passage=Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.}}
(hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
Deliver is a related term of free.
As verbs the difference between deliver and free
is that deliver is to set free while free is to make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.As an adjective free is
(label) unconstrained.As an adverb free is
without needing to pay.As a noun free is
(australian rules football|gaelic football) abbreviation of free kick.deliver
English
Alternative forms
* delivre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- She was delivered safe and soon.
- Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
- Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
- The constables have delivered her over.
- The exalted mind / All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
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- shaking his head and delivering some show of tears
- An uninstructed bowler thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward.
- I'll deliver myself your loyal servant.
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (to set free) * (to express)Derived terms
* delivery * deliverable * deliver the goodsAnagrams
*free
English
Adjective
(er)- He was free only with a few.
- My hands are guilty, but my heart is free .
- Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?
- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute
- princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties
- He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, / Free of his farm.
- (Burrill)
- (Burrill)
Synonyms
* (obtainable without payment) free of charge, gratis * (unconstrained) unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered * (unobstructed) clear, unobstructed * libre * (without) without * unboundAntonyms
* (not imprisoned or enslaved) bound, enslaved, imprisoned * (unconstrained) constrained, restricted * bound * (unobstructed) blocked, obstructed * bound * proprietary softwareDerived terms
* -free * free Abelian group, free abelian group * free algebra * free and clear * free and easy * free as a bird * freeball * freebooter * free fall * free group * freelance * freeloader * free lunch * freely * free market * free marketeer * Freemason * free module * free object * free of charge * free rein * free ride * free rider * free semigroup * free speech * free spirit * free-spoken * free-thinker * free time * free variable * free vote * freeware * freeway * freewheel * free will * unfreeAdverb
(en adverb)- I got this bike free .
- I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven.
Synonyms
* for free, for nothingVerb
(d)Hyponyms
* emancipate * liberate * manumit * release * unchain * unfetterNoun
(en noun)- Whether deserved or not, the free' gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.