will
/wɪl/
Dictionary
verb
- (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
"Do what you will."
- (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
- (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
- (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.
"I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine."
- (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.
"Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand."
- (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
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