Will vs Small - What's the difference?

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As proper nouns the difference between will and small

is that will is also used as a formal given name while small is .

As a noun will

is (american football) a weak-side linebacker.

will

English

(wikipedia will)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) wille, from (etyl) . Cognate with Dutch wil, German Wille, Swedish vilja. The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 2, below.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)

He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

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.

One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.

Eventually I submitted to my parents' will .

(archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

I auow by this most sacred head / Of my deare foster child, to ease thy griefe, / And win thy will [...].

The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.

Most creatures have a will to live.

* {{quote-news

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A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=1 citation , passage=“Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will , I mean?”}}

Usage notes

* Can be said to be strong, free, independent, etc.

Derived terms

* at will * wilful, willful * willpower * with a will

Verb

(archaic) To wish, desire.

* Bible, Matthew viii. 2

And behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord if thou wilt , thou canst make me clean.

(intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.

To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).

All the fans were willing their team to win the game.

* Shakespeare

They willed me say so, madam.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Send for music, / And will the cooks to use their best of cunning / To please the palate.

To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.

Synonyms

* (bequeath) bequeath, leave

Etymology 2

From (etyl) willen, wullen, wollen, from (etyl) willan, .It is not always distinguishable from Etymology 1, above.

Verb

(rare) To wish, desire (something).

* 1944 , FJ Sheed, translating St. Augustine, Confessions :

Grant what Thou dost command, and command what Thou wilt .

(rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XXVI:

the disciples cam to Jesus sayinge unto hym: where wylt thou that we prepare for the to eate the ester lambe?

see God's goodwill toward men, hear how generally his grace is proposed, to him, and him, and them, each man in particular, and to all. 1 Tim. ii. 4. "God will that all men be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth."

(auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 28:

As young men will , I did my best to appear suave and sophisticated.

* 2009 , Stephen Bayley, The Telegraph , 24 Sep 09:

How telling is it that many women will volunteer for temporary disablement by wearing high heeled shoes that hobble them?

* 2011 , "Connubial bliss in America", The Economist :

So far neither side has scored a decisive victory, though each will occasionally claim one.

(auxiliary) To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).

(auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, formerly with some implication of volition when used in first person. Compare (shall).

* (rfdate) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Or What You Will , act IV:

Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper : as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee for’t.

* (rfdate) Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo , chapter LXXIII:

“I will' rejoin you, and we ' will fly ; but from this moment until then, let us not tempt Providence, Morrel; let us not see each other; it is a miracle, it is a providence that we have not been discovered; if we were surprised, if it were known that we met thus, we should have no further resource.”

(auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.

Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.

Usage notes

* Historically, will' was used in the simple future sense only in the second and third person, while ''shall'' was used in the first person. Today, that distinction is almost entirely lost, and the verb takes the same form in all persons and both numbers. Similarly, in the intent sense, '''will was historically used with the second and third person, while ''shall was reserved for the first person. * Historically, the present tense is will' and the past tense is '''would'''. Early Modern English had a past participle ' would which is now obsolete. :: Malory, ‘Many tymes he myghte haue had her and he had wold’ ; John Done, ‘If hee had would, hee might easily [...] occupied the Monarchy.’ * Formerly, will could be used elliptically for "will go" — e.g. "I'll to her lodgings" (Marlowe). * See the usage note at shall . * The present participle does not apply to the uses of will as an auxiliary verb.

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small

English

Adjective

(er)

Not large or big; insignificant; few in numbers or size.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}

(figuratively) Young, as a child.

(writing, incomparable) Minuscule or lowercase, referring to written letters.

Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; paltry; mean.

* Carlyle

A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short.

a small space of time

Synonyms

* (not large or big) little, microscopic, minuscule, minute, tiny; see also * little, wee (Scottish), young * (of written letters) lowercase, minuscule

Antonyms

* See also * (not large or big) capital, big, generous (said of an amount of something given), large * adult, grown-up, old * (of written letters) big, capital, majuscule, uppercase

Derived terms

* small arm * small arms * small beer * small calorie * small-cell lung cancer * small change * small claims court * smallclothes * smaller European elm bark beetle * small forward * small fry * smallgoods * smallholder * smallholding * small hours * small intestine * smallish * small-minded * smallmouth * smallmouth bass * smallmouth black bass * smallness * small potatoes * smallpox * smalls * small-scale * small screen * small stuff * smallsword * small talk * small-time * * small wonder * twice as small * twice as small as

Adverb

(er)

In a small fashion.

* (William Shakespeare), (w, A Midsummer Night's Dream) , Act I, scene 2, line 49:

That's all one: you shall play it in a mask, and / you may speak as small as you will.

In or into small pieces.

* 2009 , Ingrid Hoffman, CBS Early Morning for September 28, 2009 (transcription)

That's going to go in there. We've got some chives small chopped as well.

(obsolete) To a small extent.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Sonnets , "Lucrece", line 1273

It small avails my mood.

Derived terms

* writ small

Noun

(en noun)

Any part of something that is smaller or slimmer than the rest, now usually with anatomical reference to the back.

(UK, in the plural) Underclothes.

Derived terms

* small of the back

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To make little or less.

To become small; to dwindle.

* Thomas Hardy

And smalled till she was nought at all.

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