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.
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.
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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Intois always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
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."