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First, I ran an Ngram Viewer search across the years 1800 to 2007, of four phrases: "are free of," "are free from," "is free of," and "is free from." Since these are all fairly common phrases today, I wanted to see whether they had always been so, and whether any change in the relative frequency of "is/are free of" and "is/are free from" had ...
definition: 1\break free of something or someone IDIOM: = escape (from), leave, withdraw from, extricate yourself from, free yourself of, disentangle yourself from • his inability to break free of his marriage. 2\break something free (from something) to force something to detach from something; to get something out of the hold of something else.
OK, so with an adjective that's got an article, like the free and the brave, you have a fixed phrase that means the free people and the brave people. It's a common construction with a definite article ( the ) plus some adjective that can describe a person (or a group of people), where the Adjective means 'people who are Adjective ' -- the ...
and "The definition of xxxx is ..." (usually inaccurate, as decent dictionaries give various senses and subsenses for words). And here: (2) appropriate dictionary definitions of 'definition' would perhaps take up twenty to thirty lines for all the senses, four per 'definition', whereas an answer to (1) could run to pages.
The examples given are "toll-free number" and "accident-free driver." Specifically, in the construction you listed, the examples are: "The number is toll-free." and "The driver is accident-free." Therefore, "The program is error-free." would be the proper construction under the Chicago Manual though other style-guides may say otherwise.
Feel free to copy/reword anything from my comment to @Mahnax's answer, if you want this to be ELU's enduring showcase definition for modern usage. – FumbleFingers Commented Nov 18, 2011 at 13:42
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Technique and technic are synonyms (as shown on Merriam-Webster's entry for technic).. Note that technique is by far more used than technic.
-free as meaning . Clear of something which is regarded as objectionable or problematic. Yes, sometimes a consequence can be 'problematic'. Other examples from the OED include. trouble-free sugar-free lead-free . There are also . pain-free smoke-free tax-free guilt-free worry-free care-free nicotine-free . This is similar to one definition of free
And like our Creator, we have free will. To a great extent, we can determine our future. The Bible encourages us to “choose life . . . by listening to [God’s] voice,” that is, by choosing to obey his commands. (Deuteronomy 30:19, 20) This offer would be meaningless, even cruel, if we lacked free will. Instead of forcing us to do what he ...