Free and easy

Definition

free / fri: / adj ( freer / 'fri:ǝ(r) /; freest / 'fri:Çst /) ၁။ (က) လြတ္လပ္ေသာ။ be as free as a bird ❍ After ten years in prison, he was a free man again. ❍ Thousands of political prisoners have been set free. (ခ) လြတ္လပ္ေသာ။ လြတ္ေသာ။ လႊတ္ထားေသာ။ leopards roaming free in the game reserve ❍ The dog was chained, so how did it get free? ၂။ လြတ္လပ္ေသာ။ အခ်ဳပ္အခ်ယ္ကင္းေသာ။ free speech ❍ a free press ❍ the free movement of workers within the European Union ❍ have/get free access to information ❍ You are free to come and go as you wish. ၃။ ပြင့္ေသာ။ ရွင္းေသာ။ လြတ္ေသာ(မၿငိေသာ)။ Is the way/passage free? ❍ a free flow of water. ၄။ ~ from/ of sth ကင္းေသာ။ soft drinks free of artificial colouring ❍ free of typographical errors / racial prejudice ❍ These drugs will keep her free from pain. ❍ a holiday free from all responsibilities. ၅။ (က) အခမဲ့။ free tickets for the theatre ❍ a free sample ❍ Admission is free. (ခ) ~ (of sth) လြတ္ၿငိမ္းေသာ။ a payment of £ 30000 free of tax ❍ Delivery is free (of charge) if goods are paid for in advance. ၆။ (က) လြတ္[ေသာ]၊ ေခ်ာင္[ေသာ]။ ျပဳတ္[ေသာ]။ the free end of the rope ❍ Let the rope run free. ❍ One of the wheels has worked free (ie become loose). ❍ They had to cut him free from the wreckage. (ခ) အားေသာ။ He picked up the suitcase with his free hand. ၇။ (က) လြတ္ေသာ၊ အားေသာ။ Is that seat free? ❍ The bathroom's free now. ❍ I've tried telephoning but her line is never free. (ခ) အားေသာ။ I'm usually free in the afternoon. ❍ Are you free for lunch? ❍ Wednesday afternoons are free for personal study. ၈။ ~ with sth ရက္ေရာေသာ။ He is very free with his time (ie gives it willingly) ❍ She's always very free with pieces of advice for everybody. ၉။ မေစာင့္စည္းေသာ။ ေခ်ာင္ေသာ။ လြတ္ေသာ။ I don't like him — he is too free in his language and in his behaviour. ၁၀။ လံုးေစ့ပတ္ေစ့ မဟုတ္ ေသာ။ Compare LITERAL ၁(က) v ( pt, pp freed / fri:d / ) ၁။ ~ sb/sth ( from sth ) လႊတ္သည္။ လြတ္ေအာင္႐ုန္းသည္၊ ထုတ္သည္။ freed slaves ❍ free the prisoner ❍ My coat caught in some barbed wire and it took me some time to free it/ myself. ❍ free sb from captivity ❍ free an animal from a trap ❍ It took the firemen two hours to free the driver from the wreckage. ၂။ ~ sb/sth of/sth ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ ကင္းေဝး ေစသည္။ Relaxation exercises can free your body of tension. ❍ The police are determined to free the town of violent crime. ၃။ ~ sb/sth for sth ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ The government intends to free more resources for educational purposes. ၄။ အခြင့္သာသည္။ Winning the prize has freed him to write full-time. adv အခမဲ့။ ေပးရန္မလို။ Children under five usually travel free on trains. ❏ for free [ IDM ] အခမဲ့။ အလကား။ My neighbour cuts my hair for free. ❏ free agent n လြတ္လပ္သူ။ အပူအပင္ကင္းသူ။ No wife, no children, no debts — he's a free agent. ❏ free and easy [ IDM ] လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ရိွေသာ။ သက္ေသာင့္သက္သာရိွေသာ။ ေအးေအးလူလူရိွေသာ။ Life here is very free and easy. ❏ Free Church n အတည္တက်ရိွၿပီး ခရစ္ယာန္ အသင္းေတာ္ မ်ားမွ သီးျခားကင္းလြတ္ေသာ ခရစ္ယာန္ အသင္းေတာ္။ ❏ free enterprise n [U] အစိုးရ ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္မႈကင္းေသာ ပုဂၢလိက စီးပြားေရး စနစ္။ the party of free enterprise and market economics. ❏ free fall n [C, U] (ေလထီးမဖြင့္ေသးဘဲ) ေလထဲ ခုန္ဆင္း ျခင္း။ ။ ( fig ) Share prices went into free fall. ရွယ္ယာ တန္ဖိုးမ်ား အထိန္းအကြပ္မရိွ ထိုးဆင္းသည္။ ❏ free floating adj အေႏွာင္အတည္းမဲ့ေသာ။ a free-floating currency. (မူေသႏႈန္း မသတ္မွတ္ဘဲ အျခားေငြေၾကးမ်ားႏွင့္ေဈးကြက္တြင္ေပါက္သည့္ႏႈန္း အတိုင္း) လြတ္လပ္စြာ လဲခြင့္ျပဳထားေသာ ေငြေၾကး။ ❏ free-for-all n ၁။ ဝ႐ုန္းသုန္းကား ျငင္းပြဲ၊ သတ္ပြဲ။ It started as a polite discussion but then developed into a real free-for-all. ၂။ ဝ႐ုန္းသုန္းကား ထင္ရာႀကဲၾကျခင္း။ a free-for- all among exporters ❍ a price-cutting free-for-all. ❏ free house n ( Brit ) ဘီယာမ်ဳိးစံုရႏိုင္ေသာ အရက္ဆိုင္။ ဘီယာအမွတ္တံဆိပ္မ်ဳိးစံုရႏိုင္ေသာ ဘီယာဆိုင္။ The Swan was reopened in 1993 as a free house. Compare TIED HOUSE ❏ free kick n ျပစ္ဒဏ္ေဘာကန္ခြင့္။ ❏ free love n [U] ( dated ) လက္မထပ္ဘဲ လိင္ဆက္ဆံ မႈျပဳျခင္း၊ သံဝါသျပဳျခင္း။ ❏ freely / 'fri:li / adv ၁။ လြတ္လပ္စြာ။ a freely elected government ❍ travel freely across the border. ၂။ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္။ spend money freely ❍ drugs that are freely available ❍ Water flowed freely from the pipe. ၃။ ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း။ We are alone — you can talk quite freely. ၄။ ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း။ I freely admit that I made a mistake. ၅။ ရက္ရက္ေရာေရာ။ ေဖာေဖာသီသီ။ လိုလိုလားလား။ Millions of people gave freely in response to the famine appeal. ❏ free market n ေဈးကြက္စီးပြားေရးစနစ္။ a free market economy ❍ compete in a free market. ❏ free port n အေကာက္ခြန္မဲ့ဆိပ္ကမ္း။ ❏ free-range adj ၿခံမေလွာင္သည့္ ၾကက္ေမြးျမဴေရးစနစ္။ free-range chickens. Compare BATTERY ၄ ❏ free-standing adj (က) အထိုင္မပါေသာ (သို႔) ခ်ိတ္တြယ္ မထားေသာ။ a free-standing sculpture. (ခ) အမီွအခို ကင္းေသာ (သို႔) သီးျခားျဖစ္ေသာ။ a free-standing company / theory. ❏ free trade n [U] အေကာက္ခြန္မဲ့ ကုန္သြယ္မႈ။ a free trade area/zone. ❏ free verse n [U] ကာရန္မဲ့ကဗ်ာ။ ❏ free vote n လြတ္လပ္စြာေပးခြင့္ရိွေသာ ဆႏၵမဲ။ ❏ free-wheel v [V] ၁။ စက္ဘီးကို မနင္းဘဲ၊ ေမာ္ေတာ္ကားကို အင္ဂ်င္အားမပါဘဲ လိွမ့္စီးသည္။ ဖရီး ႐ိုက္သည္။ ၂။ ထင္ရာ စိုင္းသည္။ a free-wheeling economy. ❏ free will n [U] ၁။ စိတ္ႀကိဳက္သေဘာအေလ်ာက္။ I did it of my own free will (ie I was not told or forced to do it). ၂။ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဖန္တီးႏိုင္စြမ္း။ ❏ get, have, etc a free hand [ IDM ] သူ႕လက္ သူ႕ေျခ လုပ္ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ I was given a free hand in designing the poster. ❏ make free with sb/sth [ IDM ] ထင္တိုင္းႀကဲသည္။ He made free with all his girlfriend's money. free comb form (forming adjs and advs ) …မဲ့။ …ကင္း။ fat-free ❍ lead-free ❍ duty-free ❍ trouble-free.

Examples

1. All talks start at 2.30 pm and admission is free.
2. There is plenty of free parking.
3. [free to/for] : The swimming pool is free to hotel guests.
4. [free gift] : You can claim your free gift with your first order.
5. He will soon be a free man again.
6. [set someone/something free] : He opened the cage and set the eagle free.
7. Hand me the free end of the rope.
8. With his free hand he carefully unfastened his belt.
9. [get free] : Sally struggled to get free from the branches.
10. Officials want free access to all suspect nuclear sites.
11. People should have a free choice of lawyers.
12. [free to do something] : You are free to come and go as you please.
13. A free people
14. [a free country/society] : We like to believe we live in a free society.
15. [a free election] : The first free elections in Germany since 1946
16. [free from/of] : We want to give all children a world free from violence.
17. It was a relaxing atmosphere
18. free of tension.
19. Within minutes
20. she was absolutely free of pain.
21. I’m busy at the moment
22. but I’ll be free this afternoon.
23. [free for] : Are you free for lunch?
24. Is this seat free?
25. There are no free fitting rooms at the moment.
26. Do you have any free time this weekend?
27. I’ll keep a day free next week for our meeting.
28. He’s never been particularly free with his cash.
29. Free oxygen