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ALL meanings of will

will
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  • auxiliary verb will future: prediction or schedule 1
  • noun will law: testament 1
  • noun will determination 1
  • noun will faculty of conscious decisions 1
  • abbreviation WILL wish 1
  • noun will volition 1
  • noun will disposition 1
  • auxiliary verb will be willing or disposed to 1
  • auxiliary verb will be required or expected to 1
  • auxiliary verb will may be expected to 1
  • auxiliary verb will may be supposed to 1
  • auxiliary verb will be sure to 1
  • auxiliary verb will habitual action 1
  • auxiliary verb will ability 1
  • auxiliary verb will be determined to 1
  • transitive verb will wish, want 1
  • transitive verb will wish, desire 1
  • transitive verb will make happen by wishing 1
  • transitive verb will bequeath 1
  • transitive verb will try to influence with thoughts 1
  • noun will Wallace, 1875–1959, U.S. journalist and humorist. 1
  • noun will his brother, William Henry ("Will") 1873–1948, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. 1
  • noun will a male given name. 1
  • verb with object will to decide, bring about, or attempt to effect or bring about by an act of the will: He can walk if he wills it. 1
  • verb with object will to purpose, determine on, or elect, by an act of will: If he wills success, he can find it. 1
  • verb with object will to give or dispose of (property) by a will or testament; bequeath or devise. 1
  • verb with object will to influence by exerting control over someone's impulses and actions: She was willed to walk the tightrope by the hypnotist. 1
  • verb without object will to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do. 1
  • verb without object will to decide or determine: Others debate, but the king wills. 1
  • idioms will at will, at one's discretion or pleasure; as one desires: to wander at will through the countryside. at one's disposal or command. 1
  • noun will Expressing the future tense. 1
  • modal verb will You use will to indicate that you hope, think, or have evidence that something is going to happen or be the case in the future. 0
  • modal verb will You use will in order to make statements about official arrangements in the future. 0
  • modal verb will You use will in order to make promises and threats about what is going to happen or be the case in the future. 0
  • modal verb will You use will to indicate someone's intention to do something. 0
  • modal verb will You use will in questions in order to make polite invitations or offers. 0
  • modal verb will You use will in questions in order to ask or tell someone to do something. 0
  • modal verb will You can use will in statements to give an order to someone. 0
  • modal verb will You use will to say that someone is willing to do something. You use will not or won't to indicate that someone refuses to do something. 0
  • modal verb will You use will to say that a person or thing is able to do something in the future. 0
  • modal verb will You use will to indicate that an action usually happens in the particular way mentioned. 0
  • modal verb will You use will in the main clause of some 'if' and 'unless' sentences to indicate something that you consider to be fairly likely to happen. 0
  • modal verb will You use will to say that someone insists on behaving or doing something in a particular way and you cannot change them. You emphasize will when you use it in this way. 0
  • modal verb will You use will have with a past participle when you are saying that you are fairly certain that something will be true by a particular time in the future. 0
  • modal verb will You use will have with a past participle to indicate that you are fairly sure that something is the case. 0
  • variable noun will Will is the determination to do something. 0
  • singular noun will If something is the will of a person or group of people with authority, they want it to happen. 0
  • verb will If you will something to happen, you try to make it happen by using mental effort rather than physical effort. 0
  • countable noun will A will is a document in which you declare what you want to happen to your money and property when you die. 0
  • verb will If you will something to someone, you say in your will that they should have it when you die. 0
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