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Become vs Into - What's the difference?

become | into |

As a verb become

is (obsolete) to arrive, come (to a place).

As an initialism into is

the irish national teacher's organisation.

become

English

Verb

  • (obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
  • *:
  • *:& thenne the noble knyghte sire Launcelot departed with ryghte heuy chere sodenly / that none erthely creature wyste of hym / nor where he was become / but sir Bors
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:But, madam, where is Warwick then become ?
  • (copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
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  • (copulative) begin to be; turn into.
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  • :
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
  • , title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
  • To be proper for; to befit.
  • *1930 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society, 2010, p.7:
  • *:His ordinationenabled him to be independent of his parents, and to afford a manner of living which became his rank rather than his calling.
  • Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
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  • Synonyms

    * (to be suitable for) befit, suit

    References

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    into

    English

    (wikipedia into)

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Going inside (of).
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=November 3, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Rubin Kazan 1-0 Tottenham , passage=This time Cudicini was left helpless when Natcho stepped up to expertly curl the ball into the top corner.}}
  • Going to a geographic region.
  • Against, especially with force or violence.
  • Producing, becoming.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
  • After the start of.
  • * , chapter=13
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * bump into * get into * look into * walk into * gazinta

    References

    * Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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