Difference between Leave and Will

What is the difference between Leave and Will?

Leave as a verb is to cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. while Will as a verb is to wish, desire.

Leave

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely. To transfer possession of after death. To give (something) to someone; to deliver (something) to a repository; to deposit. To transfer responsibility or attention of (something) (to someone); to stop being concerned with. To depart from; to end one's connection or affiliation with. To end one's membership in (a group); to terminate one's affiliation with (an organization); to stop participating in (a project). To depart; to go away from a certain place or state. To remain (behind); to stay.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Permission to be absent; time away from one's work. Permission. Farewell, departure.

Example sentence: A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Will

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.That which is desired; one's wish.The act of choosing to do something; a person's conscious intent or volition.A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To wish, desire.To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).To wish, desire (something).To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).To habitually do (a given action).To choose to (do something), used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive).Used to express the future tense, formerly with some implication of volition, especially in first-person. Compare .To be able to, to have the capacity to.

Example sentence: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

We hope you now know whether to use Leave or Will in your sentence.

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