will
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verb- 1.
(auxiliary, no past participle)Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall.
Do not forget, will you?
Will you be doing the shopping this evening? If so, will you do mine too, please?
Won't you have another glass of wine? — No, I think I’ll go to bed.
Can somebody lend me a hand? — I will.
I'm going to quit smoking. I really will!
The President will arrive at 10.00 — Will she be wanting lunch?
If you will come this way, I’ll show you your bedroom.
I said I’d help, and help I will.
If your sis won’t be here on Thu, we’d better cancel the booking. — I will pray that she arrives on time.
That'll be £69.99, please. Last for ever this pair of jeans sure will.
This breakthrough will mean that we spend less on the electricity bill.
We'll finish ours sooner than you (do/will).
Dad, will you take me to the park? Will you, please? — Will you be quiet! I'm on the phone.
I'll hold that for you, shall I?
If my plans change, I will let you know.
If we don't go now, I will be late for my class.
They will've forgotten what I look like by now.
The baby will surely have green eyes, because both parents have.
If you bring your tents, we will all camp on the coast.
- 2.
(auxiliary, no past participle)To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
- 3.
(auxiliary, no past participle)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.
I’ll kill anybody who touches my car.
- 4.
(auxiliary, no past participle)To habitually do (a given action).
Boys will be boys.
People will talk.
I will fall in love with the wrong women time and again.
The shapes of clouds will often remind us of animals.
Most nights I'll read a little before going to sleep.
- 5.
(auxiliary, no past participle)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?
I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.
- 6.
(literary, no past participle, transitive, uncommon)(now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
God willed it.
- 7.
(archaic, intransitive, no past participle)(now rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
Consider, if you will, the possibility that the sherry glasses were misplaced accidentally.
- 8.
(archaic, no past participle)Implying will go.
- 9.
(intransitive, transitive)To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- 10.
(transitive)To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
- 11.
(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.
All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
Danh từ
noun- 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.
The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
Most creatures have a will to live.
- 3.
One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
- 4.
Firmness of purpose, fixity of intent
Đồng nghĩa: determination, firmness, resoluteness, resolve
- 5.
(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.
Đồng nghĩa: testament, last will, last will and testament
- 6.
(archaic)That which is desired; one's wish.
- 7.
(archaic)Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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ine-pro From Middle English willen, wullen, wollen, from Old English willan (to want), from *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (to choose, wish). 2 cog Cognate with ill, weel, well, will, woul, wull (will), wale, wel (to want), wolle, welle, béllan, bölln (to want), willen, wollen, wüllen, wëllen, וועלן, ville, vilja, vili, vilja, vilje (want;