| we'll |
| 1. contraction. we will | |
| 2. contraction. we shall | |
| we |
| 1. pron. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) | |
| 2. pron. (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) | |
| 3. pron. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sen | |
| 4. pron. (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. | |
| How are we all tonight? | |
| 5. pron. (personal, generally considered patronising) A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care. | |
| How are we feeling this morning? | |
| 6. det. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person. | |
| We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different. | |
| 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. | |
| bivouac |
| 1. n. An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering. | |
| 2. n. Any temporary encampment. | |
| 3. n. A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights. | |
| 4. n. (dated) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack. | |
| 5. n. (zoology) A structure formed by migratory ants out of their own bodies to protect the queen and larvae. | |
| 6. v. To set up camp. | |
| We'll bivouac here tonight. | |
| 7. v. To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army. | |
| 8. v. To encamp for the night without tents or covering. | |
| here |
| 1. adv. (location) In, on, or at this place. | |
| 2. adv. (location) To this place; used in place of the more dated hither. | |
| Please come here. | |
| 3. adv. (abstract) In this context. | |
| Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve. | |
| 4. adv. At this point in the argument or narration. | |
| Here endeth the lesson. | |
| 5. n. (abstract) This place; this location. | |
| An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives. | |
| 6. adj. Filler after a noun or demonstrative pronoun, solely for emphasis. | |
| John here is a rascal. | |
| 7. adj. Filler after a demonstrative pronoun but before the noun it modifies, solely for emphasis. | |
| This here orange is too sour. | |
| 8. interj. (slang) (non-gloss, Used semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.) | |
| Here, now I'm giving it to you. | |
| 9. interj. (UK, slang) Used for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want. | |
| Here, I'm tired and I want a drink. | |
| tonight |
| 1. adv. During the night following the current day. | |
| I want to party tonight! | |
| I had a wonderful time with you tonight. | |
| 2. adv. (obsolete) Last night. | |
| 3. n. The nighttime of the current day or date; this night. | |
| Tonight is the night. | |
| I have high hopes for tonight. | |
