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# freely

«freely» in Mova's school dictionary: **without being stopped, held back or controlled** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (freely)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Freely means without being stopped, held back or controlled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#m1)

2) Freely means without having to pay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#m2)

3) Freely means openly and willingly, like admitting something freely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, freely moving particles in a gas or water flowing freely; in history and citizenship, people being able to speak and vote freely. Phrases: «move freely», «speak freely», «freely available», «freely admit».

### examples

- The birds flew freely in the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x1)
- In a gas, particles move freely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x2)
- You can speak freely here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x3)
- Water flows freely when the drain is clear. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x4)
- The leaflets are freely available at the library. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x5)
- He freely admitted that he broke the vase. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x6)
- The dogs ran freely on the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x7)
- Robbers and smugglers could breathe freely here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/#x8)

### note

From «free» + «-ly». Note: «free» can mean costs nothing or not held back; «freely» covers both, but «for free» is the usual phrase for no cost.

### In the corpora

- [The Mongols let people of many religions worship freely, including Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, which helped them rule many different peoples.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/23-the-mongols/16/)
- [A fair swap is one both people agree to freely; forcing someone with a threat is bullying, not trading.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/4-swaps-and-barter-in-the-playground/6/)
- [Volunteering means giving time freely, for example visiting lonely people or cleaning up the area.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/17/)
- [And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.50/)
- [Happy are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth freely the feet of the ox and the ass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.680/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «freely» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freely/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.