Phonetics:
Meanings:
verb
Definition: (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).
Example: Do what you will.
Definition: (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
Definition: (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
Definition: (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.
Example: I’ve told him three times, but he won’t take his medicine.
Definition: (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
Definition: (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Example: Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
Definition: (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: “will turn out to”, “must by inference”.