adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be easily/readily/freely available (=easy to get)
▪ The material used was cheap and readily available.
flow freely
▪ If the windows are shut, air cannot flow freely through the building.
flowed freely
▪ Beer and whisky flowed freely as the evening wore on.
flowed freely
▪ Everyone was relaxed and the conversation flowed freely.
freely/readily/openly admit sth (=admit without being ashamed)
▪ I freely admit I’m hopeless at maths.
roam freely
▪ Chickens and geese roam freely in the back yard.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ Many of these services are freely available online, so focus purely on the cost of trading.
▪ Good relations between partners depend on their sharing equally the work and making their findings freely available to each other.
▪ Nine items that a freely available on both sides of the channel.
▪ It's freely available on the Internet and used as the core of many ISPs' Windows 3.x bundles.
▪ Meanwhile the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has said that it is making its course materials freely available on the internet.
▪ Economic surveys Economic and political reports on most countries are made freely available by most banks to their customers.
▪ The means of power and decision-making in the decentralized authority are made freely available to non-state agencies and other organized interest groups.
▪ Flagrant disregard for the evidence freely available in libraries at home and abroad was self-defeating.
■ VERB
acknowledge
▪ Tom freely acknowledged this just as Terry acknowledged his earlier insensitivity.
▪ He freely acknowledges that he allowed the behaviour of others to put him off the career he really wanted.
▪ It was as though, having given up the struggle themselves, they could more freely acknowledge the value of it.
admit
▪ She freely admitted although only to herself that this was because Maxim would be there.
▪ This he freely admitted, although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
▪ She freely admitted that when she was shoplifting she was, in a way, hoping to go to prison.
▪ Vaught freely admitted that he is a follower.
▪ But Moore freely admits he has no stomach for the stunts.
▪ Manager Graham freely admits he could never have imagined this threesome getting just one goal between them from six games.
▪ I freely admit that things have changed since, but that was part of the argument.
▪ Now he freely admits to being gay and to having had a stable, loving relationship with another man.
breathe
▪ Can the tobacco industry now afford to breathe freely once again, unlike its customers?
choose
▪ You tell them that this is the card that they have freely chosen.
▪ Ours was a union of two educated people, a marriage freely chosen.
▪ To address the latter, he suggests a spiritual friend freely chosen and consulted in confidence.
▪ This is especially true when it comfortably serves as a prologue to the life we have freely chosen for ourselves.
▪ The anthropologists have to point again and again to the great many societies in which spouses are arranged and not freely chosen.
▪ The state jury rejected arguments that Richard Boeken had freely chosen to smoke.
▪ A free man, acting freely, choosing freely.
▪ Affective autonomy thus has its source in the social activities of children and are based on freely chosen cooperation.
circulate
▪ A buffet meal is much easier and more sociable, enabling you to circulate freely.
▪ Place them so that air can freely circulate around the back.
▪ Thus a common Zollverein currency was used alongside the numerous other state currencies, which themselves circulated freely everywhere.
▪ Other cell types - leucocytes and blood platelets - spend much of their time circulating freely and thus showing no adhesive interactions.
▪ Avoid very sweaty armpits because sweat quickly decomposes in areas where air does not circulate freely.
▪ Boards should be positioned in storage so that air can circulate freely around both main faces.
▪ The principle is to support the crop above the ground and to allow the air to circulate freely through it.
express
▪ Ideas are expressed freely and openly. 8.
▪ Though he was naturally reserved in expressions or gestures of affection, Stewart freely expressed his love in letters to Avon.
▪ It is important that people be encouraged to freely express their concerns.
▪ Feelings and passions are freely expressed and there is plenty of opportunity for the shedding of tears.
▪ They underline the right of migrant workers to express freely their ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic characteristics.
float
▪ This means that water is not composed of individual molecules floating freely around but that the molecules are linked together.
▪ The amount of shares floating freely is tiny.
flow
▪ In Berlin, Friedrichstrasse meets Zimmerstrasse at a very ordinary road junction across which traffic flows freely.
▪ Cecilia viuda is highly charged emotionally and tears flow freely.
▪ Beer and whisky flowed freely, amid much back-slapping and bonhomie.
▪ But the fountain was flowing freely this morning.
▪ It operates as a conduit for ideas to flow freely throughout an organization.
▪ John Carroll rightly reminded others that Catholic blood had flowed freely during the war.
▪ Again, press smooth so water will flow freely.
▪ In the primary processes of the unconscious system, psychical energy flows freely by means of displacement and condensation.
give
▪ Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments.
▪ Such arguments show that the instrumental as well as the non-instrumental validations of consent depend on its being freely given.
▪ She was talkative and forthright in her opinions, which she gave freely and often without the qualification for doing so.
▪ He freely gives time for the dying wife, the injured mechanic, the traumatized telephonist.
▪ He gave freely of his services over a wide field of interests.
▪ Comparisons are sometimes made with the growing number of laity who give freely of their time and skills to the Church.
▪ If people give you things, they should give freely, extracting nothing in return.
▪ For all of the help which you have given and continue to give freely we would like to thank you most sincerely.
move
▪ These characters would never escape their existential lots, or move freely from one class to another.
▪ But even for those who move freely in this circle of literary classics, Characters still has some problems.
▪ The traffic, even at that time of evening, wasn't good, but at least it was moving freely.
▪ They are apt to talk a great deal with each other and to move freely and purposefully about the space.
▪ One reason is that the lithosphere is not divided into small discrete blocks able to move freely up and down with respect to each other.
▪ Once hot spots and rifting cave created a new border, the plates on either side of it start moving freely.
▪ There are, however, natural systems in which dissolved metals move freely through membranes, irrespective of concentration.
▪ These gnomes would move freely through the earth and were guardians of mines and quarries.
roam
▪ However, the consequences of allowing cats to roam freely can be environmentally significant.
▪ Ethanol is thus a powerful solvent that can roam freely throughout the body.
▪ Collectivisation in particular is disastrous for nomadic peoples, who need to roam freely to feed their animals on sparse vegetation.
▪ In their place, dozens of sheep, goats, chickens and geese roam freely.
run
▪ This runs freely at the end of the lyric composition as finally the speaker explicitly asserts his capacity to sing for love.
▪ Blood was running freely from his nose and dripping in rapid little jots from the point of his chin.
▪ All of the zips run freely.
▪ Tears were running freely down the girl's face.
▪ Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors.
▪ Zips: all the zips run freely on both the fly and the inner.
▪ Zips: all zips run freely and are protected on the flysheet by a weather flap.
▪ Zips: all zips run freely.
speak
▪ Although it became easier to speak freely at home, only Herzen's periodicals escaped the censor entirely.
▪ She spoke freely about her fears and her hopes to anyone who would listen.
▪ Antony doesn't dare speak freely yet.
▪ Because we think of ourselves as speaking freely, our speech is hard to decode.
▪ I could speak freely to different people - rich and poor, young and old.
▪ I am Professor Challenger, initiator of the expedition, and you may speak freely to me.
▪ But in time you will be more natural with me, and laugh, and speak freely.
▪ It was his job to introduce the four-priest panel and then leave the room so people could speak freely about his pastorate.
spend
▪ I could afford to spend freely enough on a personal level - which was what confused her, I suppose.
▪ It even stimulates the sacred free market: Lovers spend freely on gifts, travel, clothes and restaurants.
▪ Abbey has spent freely developing other lines, such as online banking and investment services for wealthy customers.
talk
▪ I suppose Silas is nearby and you're unable to talk freely.
▪ They talked freely to each other.
▪ They made me welcome and gave up their time to talk freely and openly about everything that had happened to them.
▪ Good advisors will act as counselors and create a warm, supportive environment for clients to talk freely.
▪ It meant the freedom to talk freely, discuss matters which could not be voiced within four walls.
▪ Seriously though, I am of the opinion that women need their own space to talk freely without the presence of men.
▪ We talk freely about emotions but do not really stop to think what they are.
▪ He talked freely about quite a number of subjects, but had not once broached the question of being sent ashore.
travel
▪ Traffic was travelling freely, east and west, along the North Circular Road yesterday.
▪ Ernest Bevin's utopian vision of going to Victoria Station and travelling freely abroad without documents of identity has finally faded.
▪ The eyes can travel freely along the series of dots comprising the line.
▪ He and his wife Mary lived in London, unable to travel freely and even avoided by some of his fellow scientists.
use
▪ When a woman's voice is used freely and has power, it can sound and feel like a flow of light.
▪ Of course, in very full and loud tuttis it can be used freely.
▪ But although instruments were freely used they are not clearly differentiated from voices until the Second Book of Symphoniae.
▪ Painting and printing Painting Paint is another material which children need to use freely and creatively.
▪ The court has the power to strike down statutes passed by parliament and provincial legislatures, one it uses freely.
▪ The Lords quite freely use their modest powers to scrutinise and amend non-financial bills sent to them by Tories in the Commons.
▪ True, there were still plenty of pockets of sadism where the whip and the birch were freely used.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ For most of the year, farmers allow the sheep to roam freely on the hillsides.
▪ Foreign tourists will be allowed to leave the country freely.
▪ I freely admit I made many mistakes.
▪ If your muscles are tense and tight, blood cannot circulate freely.
▪ In England he could write freely, without fear of arrest.
▪ Mrs. Atwood's note said that she freely chose to end her life.
▪ Ms. Tate freely acknowledges that she hasn't paid the fines, but argues she should not have to.
▪ Sugar is given away freely in restaurants.
▪ the country's first freely elected president
▪ Thomas could not find anyone with whom he could speak freely.
▪ TV companies need the ability to operate freely, with the minimum of government interference,
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gamers freely download them from myriad sites.
▪ He enters freely into public debate from his close attention to most subjects, but he is no Orator.
▪ She told me so freely on more than one occasion.
▪ The personal consequences of complete isolation in hospital for patients and families who have previously socialised freely are potentially enormous.
▪ This allows harmonics and noise to pass freely.
▪ This he freely admitted, although, even so, neither he nor Mama would ever reveal what his real name was.
▪ You tell them that this is the card that they have freely chosen.