autonomous vs free

autonomous

adj
  • Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules. 

  • Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently. 

  • Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject). 

free

adj
  • Privileged or individual; the opposite of common. 

  • Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched. 

  • 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. 

  • Without obligations. 

  • With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification. 

  • Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated. 

  • (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme. 

  • Unconstrained. 

  • Unobstructed, without blockages. 

  • Unattached or uncombined. 

  • Not imprisoned or enslaved. 

  • Unconstrained by quantifiers. 

  • Not attached; loose. 

  • Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound. 

  • 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. 

  • Unconstrained by timidity or distrust 

  • Intended for release, as opposed to a checked version. 

  • complimentary 

  • Unconstrained by relators. 

  • Obtainable without any payment. 

  • Generous; liberal. 

  • Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied. 

adv
  • Without needing to pay. 

verb
  • To make free; set at liberty; release. 

  • To rid of something that confines or oppresses. 

  • To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system. 

noun
  • A free transfer. 

  • The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed. 

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