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into
[ in-too; unstressed in-too, -tuh ]
preposition
- to the inside of; in toward:
He walked into the room. The train chugged into the station.
- toward or in the direction of:
going into town.
- to a point of contact with; against:
backed into a parked car.
- (used to indicate insertion or immersion in):
plugged into the socket.
- (used to indicate entry, inclusion, or introduction in a place or condition):
received into the church.
- to the state, condition, or form assumed or brought about:
went into shock; lapsed into disrepair; translated into another language.
- to the occupation, action, possession, circumstance, or acceptance of:
went into banking; coerced into complying.
- (used to indicate a continuing extent in time or space):
lasted into the night; far into the distance.
- (used to indicate the number to be divided by another number):
2 into 20 equals 10.
- Informal. interested or absorbed in, especially obsessively:
She's into yoga and gardening.
- Slang. in debt to:
I'm into him for ten dollars.
adjective
- Mathematics. pertaining to a function or map from one set to another set, the range of which is a proper subset of the second set, as the function f, from the set of all integers into the set of all perfect squares where f ( x ) = x 2 for every integer.
into
/ ˈɪntuː; ˈɪntə /
preposition
- to the interior or inner parts of
to look into a case
- to the middle or midst of so as to be surrounded by
into the bushes
into the water
- against; up against
he drove into a wall
- used to indicate the result of a transformation or change
he changed into a monster
- maths used to indicate a dividend
three into six is two
- informal.interested or enthusiastically involved in
I'm really into Freud these days
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- be into
Example Sentences
In recent years, the program has dominated investigative journalism in prime time as its competitors “Dateline” on NBC and “20/20” on ABC have moved exclusively into telling true crime stories.
August 2023: Playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Pham got into a verbal confrontation with a fan while in the on-deck circle in San Diego, saying later that the fan referred to him with a profanity.
A similar investigation into Harvard was announced last week.
The University of California system was already reeling from massive federal funding cuts, student visa cancellations and Justice Department probes into admissions and allegations of antisemitism.
The new UC Berkeley inquiry revives a 2023 House subcommittee investigation into the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute, a partnership between UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering and China’s Tsinghua University begun in 2016.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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