Free vs Innate - What's the difference?
free | innate |
(label) Unconstrained.
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, title=, chapter=1
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# 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.
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Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
* (w) (1635?-1715)
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(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
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, 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.
Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.
Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See a priori, intuitive.
* South
* John Locke
(botany) Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.
To cause to exist; to call into being.
As adjectives the difference between free and innate
is that free is (label) unconstrained while innate is inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.As verbs the difference between free and innate
is that free is to make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses while innate is to cause to exist; to call into being.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
*innate
English
Adjective
(-)- There is an innate light in every man, discovering to him the first lines of duty in the common notions of good and evil.
- how men may attain to all the knowledge they have, without the help of any innate impressions
- (Gray)