Free vs Unit - What's the difference?
free | unit |
(label) Unconstrained.
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, title=, chapter=1
, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
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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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, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
# 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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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, 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
* {{quote-news
, 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.
(sciences) A standard measure of a quantity.
The number one.
An organized group comprising people and/or equipment.
(military, informal) A member of a military organization.
(US, military) Any military element whose structure is prescribed by competent authority, such as a table of organization and equipment; specifically, part of an organizationJoint Publication 1-02 U.S. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms; 12 April 2001 (As Amended Through 14 April 2006). .
(US, military) An organization title of a subdivision of a group in a task force.
(US, military) A standard or basic quantity into which an item of supply is divided, issued or used. In this meaning, also called unit of issue.
(US, military) With regard to Reserve Components of the Armed Forces, denotes a Selected Reserve unit organized, equipped, and trained for mobilization to serve on active duty as a unit or to augment or be augmented by another unit. Headquarters and support functions without wartime missions are not considered units.
(algebra) An element of a ring having a multiplicative inverse. (Formerly just the identity element 1R of a ring.)
(geology) A volume of rock or ice of identifiable origin and age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.
(commerce) An item which may be sold singly.
(UK, electricity) One kilowatt-hour (as recorded on an electricity meter).
(Australia, New Zealand) a measure of housing equivalent to the living quarters of one household, an apartment where a group of apartments is contained in one or more multi-storied buildings or a group of dwellings is in one or more single storey buildings, usually arranged around a driveway.
(historical) A gold coin of the reign of James I, worth twenty shillings.
For each unit.
(mathematics) Having a size or magnitude of one.
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As verbs the difference between free and unit
is that free is to make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses while unit is .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.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.
Usage notes
*unit
English
(Unit)Noun
(en noun)- The centimetre is a unit of length.
- This pill provides 500 units of Vitamin E.
- He was a member of a special police unit .
- The fifth tank brigade moved in with 20 units .'' (''i.e., 20 tanks )
- We shipped nearly twice as many units this month as last month.
- (Camden)
Synonyms
* (identity element) identity element, unit elementAdjective
(-)- We have to keep our unit costs down if we want to make a profit.
- Consider the following time sequence
- where is a random variable with a zero mean and a unit variance and is a random variable with a uniform distribution on the interval independent of .
