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   [in-too; unstressed in-too, -tuh]
preposition
1.
to the inside of; in toward: He walked into the room. The train chugged into the station.
2.
toward or in the direction of: going into town.
3.
to a point of contact with; against: backed into a parked car.
4.
(used to indicate insertion or immersion in): plugged into the socket.
5.
(used to indicate entry, inclusion, or introduction in a place or condition): received into the church.
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6.
to the state, condition, or form assumed or brought about: went into shock; lapsed into disrepair; translated into another language.
7.
to the occupation, action, possession, circumstance, or acceptance of: went into banking; coerced into complying.
8.
(used to indicate a continuing extent in time or space): lasted into the night; far into the distance.
9.
(used to indicate the number to be divided by another number): 2 into 20 equals 10.
10.
Informal. interested or absorbed in, especially obsessively: She's into yoga and gardening.
11.
Slang. in debt to: I'm into him for ten dollars.
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adjective
12.
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) = x2 for every integer.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English, Old English; see in, to
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Example Sentences
  • However, many users are still grandfathered into the unlimited plan.
  • Dip the wire into the glue, then insert the wire partway though the stem end.
  • Forget the launchpads, the giant rockets, and the gazillion-dollar prices for getting satellites into space.
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World English Dictionary
into (ˈɪntuː, (unstressed) ˈɪntə)
 
—prep
1.  to the interior or inner parts of: to look into a case
2.  to the middle or midst of so as to be surrounded by: into the water; into the bushes
3.  against; up against: he drove into a wall
4.  used to indicate the result of a transformation or change: he changed into a monster
5.  maths used to indicate a dividend: three into six is two
6.  informal interested or enthusiastically involved in: I'm really into Freud these days

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Word Origin & History

into
O.E. into, originally in to. To be into something, "be intensely involved in," first recorded 1969 in Amer.Eng. The word is a late O.E. development to replace the fading dative case inflections that formerly distinguished, for instance, "in the house" from "into the house."
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Idioms & Phrases

into

In addition to the idioms beginning with into, also see be into.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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