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| wait'll | |
| 1. contraction. contraction of wait till |  |
| wait | |
| 1. v. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.) | |
| 2. v. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. | |
| Wait here until your car arrives. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. | |
| She used to wait down at the Dew Drop Inn. | |
| 4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany. | |
| 6. v. (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal). | |
| to wait dinner | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To remain celibate while one's lover is unavailable. | |
| 8. n. A delay. | |
| I had a very long wait at the airport security check. | |
| 9. n. An ambush. | |
| They laid in wait for the patrol. | |
| 10. n. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman. | |
| 11. n. (in the obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians. | |
| 12. n. (in the archaic, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. formerly waites, wayghtes. | |
| will | |
| 1. v. (rare, transitive) To wish, desire (something). | |
| Do what you will. | |
| 2. v. (rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). | |
| 3. v. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action). | |
| 4. v. (auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive). | |
| 5. v. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall. | |
| 6. v. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to. | |
| Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand. | |
| 7. n. 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. | |
| 8. n. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands. | |
| Eventually I submitted to my parents' will. | |
| 9. n. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition. | |
| Most creatures have a will to live. | |
| 10. n. (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. | |
| 11. n. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish. | |
| 12. n. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) | |
| He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. | |
| 13. v. (archaic) To wish, desire. | |
| 14. v. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | |
| 15. v. To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). | |
| All the fans were willing their team to win the game. | |
| 16. v. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). | |
| He willed his stamp collection to the local museum. | |
