Nature vs Free - What's the difference?
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(lb) The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
* (1800-1859)
*:Nature has caprices which art cannot imitate.
*1891 , (Oscar Wilde), ''(The Decay of Lying)
*:Nature has good intentions, of course, but, as Aristotle once said, she cannot carry them out. When I look at a landscape I cannot help seeing all its defects.
The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), , Ch.1:
*:Being by nature of a cheerful disposition, the symptom did not surprise his servant, late private of the same famous regiment, who was laying breakfast in an adjoining room.
*1869 , , :
*:Mark hardly knew whether to believe this or not. He already began to suspect that Roswell was something of a humbug, and though it was not in his nature to form a causeless dislike, he certainly did not feel disposed to like Roswell.
The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I oft admire / How Nature , wise and frugal, could commit / Such disproportions.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31
, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Kind, sort; character; quality.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:A dispute of this nature caused mischief.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
(lb) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:my days of nature
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Oppressed nature sleeps.
(lb) Natural affection or reverence.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:Have we not seen / The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, / Through violated nature force his way?
(obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.
(label) Unconstrained.
*{{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Stephen Crane)
, 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 […].”}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Schumpeter
, title=[http://www.economist.com/news/business/21583242-businesspeople-have-become-too-influential-government-cronies-and-capitols Cronies and capitols]
, 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.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title=[http://www.economist.com/news/http://www.economist.com/news/business/21582001-army-new-online-courses-scaring-wits-out-traditional-universities-can-they The attack of the MOOCs]
, 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.
As a proper noun nature
is the sum of natural forces reified and considered as a sentient being, will, or principle.As an adjective free is
(label) unconstrained.As an adverb free is
without needing to pay.As a verb free is
to make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.As a noun free is
(australian rules football|gaelic football) abbreviation of free kick.nature
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Alternative forms
* natuer (obsolete)Noun
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Derived terms
* animal nature * back to nature * bad nature * by nature * call of nature * defy the laws of nature * crime against nature * freak of nature * good nature * human nature * law of nature/laws of nature * let nature take its course * Mother Nature * nature morte * nature preserve * nature reserve * nature strip * nature study * nature worship * second nature (nature)Verb
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* 1000 English basic words ----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.