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Meaning details(1)
(auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
Boys will be boys.
Meaning details(2)
(archaic) Implying will go.
I’ll to England.
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(auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
One of our salesmen will visit you tomorrow.
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(auxiliary) Expressing a present 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.
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(auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
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(auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation.
Will you marry me?
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(now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
Do what you will.
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(now rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
the disciples cam to Jesus sayinge unto hym: where wylt thou that we prepare for the to eate the ester lambe?
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