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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

Old English intō

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  • (stressed)
  • (unstressed, before consonants) IPA: /ˈɪn.tə/, SAMPA: /"Int@/
  • (unstressed, before vowels) IPA: /ˈɪn.tʊ/, SAMPA: /"IntU/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: in‧to

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into

  1. Going inside (of)
    Mary danced into the house.
    • 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, BBC Sport:
      This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.
  2. Going to a geographic region.
    We left the house and walked into the street.
    The plane flew into the open air.
  3. Against, especially with force or violence.
    The car crashed into the tree.
    I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall.
  4. Producing, becoming
    I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.
    Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
  5. Of (when describing duration)
    About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot reported a fire on board.
  6. (colloquial) Intensely interested in or attracted to.
    I'm really into Shakespeare right now.
    I'm so into you!
  7. (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
    The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
  8. (UK, archaic, India, mathematics) The operation of multiplication.[1]
    Five into three is fifteen.
  9. (mathematics) The operation of division, with the denominator expressed first.
    Three into two won't go.
  10. Investigation of a subject.
    Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees

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  1. ^ “into” in OED Online, Oxford University Press, 1989.
  • Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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  • Hyphenation: in‧to
  • IPA: [ˈin̪t̪o̞]

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into

  1. Eagerness, enthusiasm.
    odottaa innolla (+ partitive) = to look forward to
  2. Passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor.
  3. Zeal, fanaticism.

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Compound of in and

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intō

  1. into
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