Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. • Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. • Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London) • Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something. • Wanted to. • Used with ellipsis of the infinitive verb, or postponement to a relative clause, in various senses. • Wished, desired (something). • A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. • Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another. • Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action. • Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc. • Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation. • Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption. • Could naturally be expected to (given the situation, the tendencies of someone's character etc.). • Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …? • Might wish (+ verb in past subjunctive); often used in the first person (with or without that) in the sense of "if only". • Might desire; wish (something).