will

1. (v) (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall. 2. (v) (auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation. 3. (v) (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. 4. (v) (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). 5. (n) One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. 6. (n) The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. 7. (n) One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. 8. (n) Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent 9. (n) (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. 10. (v) (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). 11. (v) (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. 12. (v) (now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something). 13. (v) (now rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). 14. (v) (archaic) Implying will go. 15. (n) (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. 16. (n) (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) 17. (v) (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference". 18. (v) (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. 19. (n) A diminutive of the male given name William or, less often, other given names beginning with Wil-, such as Wilfred or Willard, from the Germanic languages; also used as a formal given name. 20. (n) A surname originating as a patronymic. 21. (n) (American football) A weak-side linebacker.