Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word WILL

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Definitions of WILL

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

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Examples of Using WILL in a Sentence

• He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will.
• The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia".
• His maternal great-uncle Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC, and Octavian was named in Caesar's will as his adopted son and heir; as a result, he inherited Caesar's name, estate, and the loyalty of his legions.
• 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
• During his minority, Afonso was placed under the regency of his mother, Eleanor, in accordance with the will left by his late father.
• 1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake Poyang begins, in which the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders (Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang) meet to decide who will supplant the Yuan dynasty.
• Smith refuses to explain the distribution of wealth and power in terms of God's will and instead appeals to natural, political, social, economic, legal, environmental and technological factors and the interactions among them.
• 1428 – Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance.
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• Queen Cassiopeia understands that chaining Andromeda to a rock as a human sacrifice is what will appease Poseidon.
• In economics, adaptive expectations is a hypothesized process by which people form their expectations about what will happen in the future based on what has happened in the past.
• Eating amygdalin will cause it to release cyanide in the human body, and may lead to cyanide poisoning.
• Brazil's fast-growing economy, and especially the growth in exports, will place increasing demands on the transport networks.
• The Soviet Bloc propaganda portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from "fascist elements conspiring to prevent the will of the people" from building a communist state in the GDR.
• In Major League Baseball, the American League Division Series (ALDS) determines which two teams from the American League will advance to the American League Championship Series.
• In Major League Baseball, the National League Division Series (NLDS) determines which two teams from the National League will advance to the National League Championship Series.
• In the Early Buddhist schools, as well as modern Theravāda Buddhism, bodhisattva (or bodhisatta) refers to someone who has made a resolution to become a Buddha and has also received a confirmation or prediction from a living Buddha that this will be so.
• In statistical mechanics and mathematics, a Boltzmann distribution (also called Gibbs distribution) is a probability distribution or probability measure that gives the probability that a system will be in a certain state as a function of that state's energy and the temperature of the system.
• Danner was twice nominated for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for portraying Marilyn Truman on Will & Grace (2001–06; 2018–20), and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie for her roles in We Were the Mulvaneys (2002) and Back When We Were Grownups (2004).
• Considering free will to be an illusion, Skinner saw human action as dependent on consequences of previous actions, a theory he would articulate as the principle of reinforcement: If the consequences to an action are bad, there is a high chance the action will not be repeated; if the consequences are good, the probability of the action being repeated becomes stronger.

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