will

IPA: wˈɪɫ

noun

  • One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
  • The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
  • One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
  • Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
  • (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
  • (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
  • (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
  • A male given name, a shortening of William; also used as a formal given name.
  • A surname originating as a patronymic.
  • (American football) A weak-side linebacker.

verb

  • (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
  • (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
  • (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
  • (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
  • (auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation.
  • (now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
  • (now rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
  • (archaic) Implying will go.
  • (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
  • (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
  • (transitive) To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
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Examples of "will" in Sentences

  • Guess I will love this egg curry..will have to try it soon Meera
  • As a newbie to baking, this will be a challenge..will send the entry soon..
  • I think i have a book on birds that might interest you..will go check it out..if so will send it to you.
  • Yes, a bunch of these will fail, but the ones that draw large audiences *will* be able to monetize down the line.
  • Still debating as to whether or not wellies will be required I have a fetching pair of pink croc wellies so maybe I *will* need them...
  • I make minus the peppercorns..will try with that next time...thanks for the almost single..when you write, I will want to be among the first ones to read it!
  • Update: Ashley has more details, but doesn't answer my question, although to my eyes there's an implication that the new aggregator will be even less platform agnostic than iPlayer - which Ashley says *will* support GNU/Linux....
  • A Go to the press; tell them ‘It’s a mystery’ why you were fired; and tell them that no one will ever know, thereby challenging them to investigate why you were *really* fired and ensuring that all the embarrassing details *will* come out;

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