free

1.people who are free;

the home of the free and the brave

2.able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint;

free enterprise

3.unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion;

free expansion

4.costing nothing;

complimentary tickets

5.not occupied or in use;

a free locker

6.not fixed in position;

the detached shutter fell on him

7.not held in servitude;

after the Civil War he was a free man

8.not taken up by scheduled activities;

a free hour between classes

9.not literal;

a loose interpretation of what she had been told

10.without restraint;

cows in India are running loose

1.grant freedom to; free from confinement

2.relieve from;

Rid the the house of pests

3.remove or force out from a position;

The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums

4.grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to;

She exempted me from the exam

5.make (information) available publication;

release the list with the names of the prisoners

6.free from obligations or duties

7.free or remove obstruction from;

free a path across the cluttered floor

8.let off the hook;

I absolve you from this responsibility

9.part with a possession or right;

I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest

10. make (assets) available;

release the holdings in the dictator's bank account