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in⋅to

  [in-too; unstressed in-too, -tuh]
Use into in a Sentence
–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.
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, esp. 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.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE; see in, to
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in·to   (ĭn'tōō)   
prep.  
  1. To the inside or interior of: went into the house.
    1. To the activity or occupation of: recent college graduates who go into banking.
    2. To the condition, state, or form of: dishes breaking into pieces; changed into a butterfly.
    3. So as to be in or be included in: parties entering into an agreement; wrote a new character into the play.
    4. Informal Interested in or involved with: They are into vegetarianism.
  3. To a point within the limits of a period of time or extent of space: well into the week.
  4. In the direction of; toward: looked into the distance; pointed into the sky.
  5. Against: crashed into a tree.
  6. As a divisor of: The number 3 goes into 9 three times.
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Into

In"to\, prep. [In + to.] To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

1. Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

2. Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.

3. Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.

4. Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.

5. Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

Note: Compare In.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : into
Spanish: en, dentro de,
German: in,
Japanese: ～の中へ
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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."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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into

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

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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