Will
WordNet
noun
(1) The capability of conscious choice and decision and intention
"The exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith
(2) A fixed and persistent intent or purpose
"Where there's a will there's a way"
(3) A legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
verb
(4) Determine by choice
"This action was willed and intended"
(5) Have in mind
"I will take the exam tomorrow"
(6) Decree or ordain
"God wills our existence"
(7) Leave or give by will after one's death
"My aunt bequeathed me all her jewelry"
"My grandfather left me his entire estate"
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- Also used as a formal given name.
Quotations
- 1598, William Shakespeare, Sonnets, 136
- Make but my name thy love, and love that still,
- And then thou lov'st me, - for my name is Will.
- 1998 Nick Hornby, About A Boy, Victor Gollancz, 1998, ISBN 0575061596, page 208
- One of his neighbours opposite, a nice old guy with a stoop and a horrible little Yorkshire terrier, called him Bill - always had done and presumably always would, right up till the day he died. It actually irritated Will, who was not, he felt, by any stretch of the imagination, a Bill. Bill wouldn't smoke spliffs and listen to Nirvana. So why had he allowed this misapprehension to continue? Why hadn't he just said, four years ago, "Actually my name is Will"?
Noun
- A weak-side linebacker.
- 1997, F Henderson, M Olson, Football's West Coast Offense, page 7
- Will linebacker drops to turn-in, QB dropping dumps the ball off to HB.
- 2000, American Football Coaches Association Defensive Football Strategies, page 25
- Our Will linebacker, because he is away from the formation or to the split end, should be a great pursuit man and pass defender.
- Will covers the back side hook zone on the weak side.
- 1997, F Henderson, M Olson, Football's West Coast Offense, page 7