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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
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Idioms and Phrases
- be into
Example Sentences
The frenzied excitement generated by Vice President Kamala Harris’ 11th-hour entry into the 2024 presidential race was questioned, if not dismissed, as a “campaign powered by vibes” by a “vibes candidate.”
Nearly every episode of Ambient Swim is a continuous loop of animated images growing and dissolving into each other, separated by style and theme.
Like the space cowboys and ronin searching for purpose in his past series, the personalities populating “Lazarus” are anguished people navigating a broken world, refusing to resign themselves to the long dark but not beyond relaxing into the reality in front of it.
Winning titles is nothing new to the French champions but Luis Enrique has helped turn them from a team long associated with egos and big-money into a vibrant, youthful and thrilling team to watch.
He stretches every 30 minutes at the training ground, trains daily - even at home sometimes, weaving between sofas and walls - and has turned both house and office into functional gyms, with straps and bars hanging from ceilings and walls.
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