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- Shall and willShall and willShall and will are both modal verbs in English used to express propositions about the future.-Usage:These modal verbs have been used in the past for a variety of meanings...
, the word will as a modal verbModal verbA modal verb is a type of auxiliary verb that is used to indicate modality -- that is, likelihood, ability, permission, and obligation... - Will (law)Will (law)A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...
, instructions for the disposition of one's property after death- Advance health care directive (living will), instructions for medical decisions after one becomes incapacitated
- Will (philosophy)Will (philosophy)Will, in philosophical discussions, consonant with a common English usage, refers to a property of the mind, and an attribute of acts intentionally performed. Actions made according to a person's will are called "willing" or "voluntary" and sometimes pejoratively "willful"...
, or willpower - Volition (psychology)Volition (psychology)Volition or will is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action. It is defined as purposive striving, and is one of the primary human psychological functions...
- Will (sociology)Will (sociology)In sociology, will is a concept introduced by Ferdinand Tönnies in "Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft", 1887. Tönnies' approach was very much indebted to Spinoza's dictum voluntas atque intellectus unum et idem sunt , and to Arthur Schopenhauer.Tönnies saw a fundamental cleavage between "essential...
Media and entertainment
- Will (2011 film)Will (2011 film)Will is an upcoming British sports drama film directed by Ellen Perry and starring Damian Lewis, Jane March and Bob Hoskins. An eleven-year old Liverpool fan runs away from home and travels across Europe to the 2005 Champions League Final in Istanbul...
, a British Sports Drama film - Will (band)Will (band)Will was a Canadian electronic music act founded by Rhys Fulber and Chris Peterson, both members of Front Line Assembly and Delerium at different times...
- Will (novel)Will (novel)Will is a historical fiction novel by Christopher Rush, published in 2007. It is told from the perspective of William Shakespeare as he writes his will. The book's film right were sold to Sir Ben Kingsley's SBK pictures in 2007....
, by Christopher Rush - Will (Maria Boyd novel)Will (Maria Boyd novel)Will is a 2006 young adult novel by Australian author Maria Boyd. It was released in the United States in 2010. The novel tells the story of the titular character, Will Armstrong, who after the death of his father begins to play up at school, culminating in him dropping his pants and mooning a...
- Will: The Death Trap II, a video game
- The WillThe WillThe Will is an American reality television series on CBS that lasted only one episode, shown on Saturday, January 8, 2005. It centered on the "Benefactor", a multi-millionaire from Arizona named Bill Long...
, a reality TV series - WILLWILLWILL is the callsign of the three public broadcasting stations owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and directly operated by its Division of Broadcasting...
, the call sign of three public broadcasting stations - Bandslam, a 2008 film with the working title Will
- Will, an autobiography by G. Gordon LiddyG. Gordon LiddyGeorge Gordon Liddy was the chief operative for the White House Plumbers unit that existed from July–September 1971, during Richard Nixon's presidency. Separately, along with E. Howard Hunt, Liddy organized and directed the Watergate burglaries of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in...
- Will: G. Gordon LiddyWill: G. Gordon LiddyThe American made for television movie Will: G. Gordon Liddy first aired on NBC in January 1982. The film depicts the rise and fall of Watergate co-conspirator G. Gordon Liddy. Liddy was portrayed by two different actors: American actor Robert Conrad played Liddy as an adult and child-actor Danny...
, a 1981 film - Will (album)Will (album)Will is the third album by Irish musician Leo O'Kelly. It was released on March 18, 2011 by Life and Living Records and consists of a collaboration with Liverpool writer John McKeown, who wrote poems that constitute album's lyrics, then adapted in music by O'Kelly.-Track listing:-Personnel:* Leo...
, a 2011 album by Leo O'KellyLeo O'KellyLeo O'Kelly is an Irish singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer. He is mainly known as a member of the Irish folk duet Tír na nÓg....
People
- Will (comics)Will (comics)Willy Maltaite known by the pseudonym Will, was a comics creator and comics artist in the Franco-Belgian tradition...
(1927-2000), comic strip artist - Will (Indian)Will (Indian)Will was an Indian of the Misquito tribe from what is now Honduras or Nicaragua. In history, he is known for having stayed as a castaway on uninhabited Robinson Crusoe Island, the largest of the archipelago of the Juan Fernández Islands, for more than three years...
(17th c.), a Misquito castaway, possibly the model for Friday in Robinson Crusoe - George WillGeorge WillGeorge Frederick Will is an American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winner best known for his conservative commentary on politics...
(born 1941), American conservative writer - Will, a character of the PokémonPokémonis a media franchise published and owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1996. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy role-playing video games developed by Game Freak, Pokémon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video...
universe. - William (name)William (name)William is a popular given name of old Germanic origin. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era...