(n) people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"

(v) make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"

(v) let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"

(v) free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor"

(v) remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"

(v) part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"

(v) relieve from; "Rid the the house of pests"

(v) grant freedom to; free from confinement

(v) free from obligations or duties

(v) make (information) available publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners"

(v) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"

(s) not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"

(a) unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron"

(s) not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"

(a) able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"

(a) not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man"

(s) not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane"

(s) not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"

(s) costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"

(r) without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"

(r) as the end result of a succession or process; "ultimately he had to give in"; "at long last the winter was over"

(r) after a long period of time or an especially long delay; "at length they arrived"

(r) the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values"

(n) the first of two or the first mentioned of two; "Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today"

(n) a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"

(n) a place where planes take off and land

(n) the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

(n) a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"

(n) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

(n) all of the horses in a particular horse race

(n) (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field"

(n) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

(n) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

(n) a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"

(n) somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"

(n) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"

(n) a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

(n) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"

(n) extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"

(n) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

(n) a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

(v) select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

(v) answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

(v) play as a fielder

(v) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

(n) the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"

(n) a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice"

(n) a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"

(n) a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall"

(n) a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height"

(n) a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides"

(n) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg"

(n) when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

(n) the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall"

(n) a downward slope or bend

(n) the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

(n) the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973"

(v) pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost he

(v) decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fall to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

(v) come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"

(v) go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts"

(v) occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable"

(v) begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away"

(v) be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon"

(v) come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth"

(v) be cast down; "his eyes fell"

(v) assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell"

(v) fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back"

(v) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"

(v) descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse"

(v) drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees"

(v) lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead"

(v) slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean"

(v) move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward"

(v) be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"

(v) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"

(v) come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"

(v) be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy"

(v) to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest student"

(v) to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter"

(v) lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen"

(v) suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside"

(v) yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell"

(v) lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman"

(v) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"

(v) die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"

(v) be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month"

(v) come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading"

(v) fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum"

(n) travel by foot; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot"

(n) a foot of a vertebrate other than a human being

(n) any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates

(n) a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet"

(n) lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower"

(n) the foot of a human being; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot"

(n) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm

(n) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot"

(n) the lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain"

(n) a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger

(n) a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall"

(v) add a column of numbers

(v) walk; "let's hoof it to the disco"

(v) pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill"

(n) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"

(n) (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect"

(n) physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man"

(n) a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"

(n) a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men"

(n) a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers"

(n) group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens"

(n) one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil"

(n) (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration"

(v) impose or thrust urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him"

(v) do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!"

(v) cause to move along the ground by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled"

(v) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad"

(v) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"

(v) take by force; "Storm the fort"

(v) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

(v) move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner"

(v) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"