Aboard vs Into - What's the difference?
aboard | into |
On board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car.
On or onto a horse, a camel, etc.
(baseball) On base.
Into a team, group, or company.
(nautical) Alongside.
On board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane.
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Onto a horse.
(obsolete) Across; athwart; alongside.
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Going inside (of).
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Against, especially with force or violence.
Producing, becoming.
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, title= (colloquial) Intensely interested in or attracted to.
(mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
(British, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.
(mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
Investigating the subject.
As an adverb aboard
is on board; into or within a ship or boat; hence, into or within a railway car .As a preposition aboard
is on board of; onto or into a ship, boat, train, plane .As an initialism into is
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Adverb
(-)- We all climbed aboard .
- To sling a saddle aboard .
- He doubled with two men aboard , scoring them both.
- The office manager welcomed him aboard .
- The ships came close aboard to pass messages.
- to fall aboard of. (also figuratively)
Preposition
(English prepositions)- We all went aboard the ship.
- Nor iron bands aboard The Pontic Sea by their huge navy cast. -
Derived terms
(definitions belong in separate entries) Nautical : * fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. * haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. * keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. * , to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.References
Anagrams
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(wikipedia into)Preposition
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