will

verb11

1. •
   shows that an action or situation is in the future

   • Do not forget, will you?
   • Will you be doing the shopping this evening? If so, will you do mine too, please?
2. •
   To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation.

   • Will you marry me?
   • What will you drink?
3. •
   Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

   • He will be home by now. He always gets home before 6 o'clock.
   • I can't find my umbrella. I will've left it at home this morning.
4. •
   To habitually do (a given action).

   • Boys will be boys.
   • People will talk.
5. •
   To be able to, to have the capacity to.

   • Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
6. •
   (literary) To wish, desire (something).

   • Do what you will.
   • God willed it.
7. •
   To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
8. •
   To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

   • He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
9. •
   To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.

   • All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
   • Her parents were watching her run, willing her on.
10. •
    (no longer used) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).

    • Consider, if you will, the possibility that the sherry glasses were misplaced accidentally.
11. •
    (no longer used) Implying will go.

    • I’ll to England. — 1606

noun7

1. •
   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.
2. •
   A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.

   • “Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will, I mean?” — 1928
3. •
   One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.

   • Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
4. •
   The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.

   • Most creatures have a will to live.
5. •
   Firmness of purpose, fixity of intent

   • ...surely the link could not have been with Churchill the brilliant, gallant and steadfast wartime leader who, by dint of character, will and language, turned near defeat into victory. — 2015
6. •
   (no longer used) That which is desired; one's wish.

   • I auow by this most sacred head / Of my deare foster child, to ease thy griefe, / And win thy will [...]. — 1590
7. •
   (no longer used) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)

   • He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

noun1

1. •
   A weak-side linebacker.

   • Will linebacker drops to turn-in, QB dropping dumps the ball off to HB. — 1997