The quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins; "the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial"; "he is no longer news in the fashion world" information reported in a newspaper or news magazine; "the news of my death was greatly exaggerated" a program devoted to news; "we watch the 7 o'clock news every night" new information of any kind; "it was news to me" new information about specific and timely events; "they awaited news of the outcome"
Not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands" not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man" not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane" costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission" unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" 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" without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave" make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account" part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor" free from obligations or duties make (information) available publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners" grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" 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" relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" grant freedom to; free from confinement
Boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas; "right of search" the examination of alternative hypotheses; "his search for a move that would avoid checkmate was unsuccessful" an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup" an investigation seeking answers; "a thorough search of the ledgers revealed nothing"; "the outcome justified the search" the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone subject to a search; "The police searched the suspect"; "We searched the whole house for the missing keys" inquire into; "the students had to research the history of the Second World War for their history project"; "He searched for information on his relatives on the web"; "Scientists are exploring the nature of consciousness" search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
Obscene terms for penis a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease" an implement used in the practice of a vocation work with a tool furnish with tools ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" drive; "The convertible tooled down the street"
A computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web; "the Israeli web site was damaged by hostile hackers"