| Will | |
| 1. n. (American football) A weak-side linebacker. | |
| 2. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
| Do what you will. | |
| 3. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
| 4. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
| 6. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
| 7. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
| Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
| 8. n. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention. | |
| Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason. | |
| 9. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
| Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
| 10. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
| Most creatures have a will to live. | |
| 11. 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. | |
| 12. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
| 13. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
| He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
| 14. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
| 16. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
| All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
| 17. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
| He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
