In vs Oft - What's the difference?
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# Contained by.
# Within.
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# Part of; a member of.
# Pertaining to (that particular thing).
# At the end of a period of time.
# Within a certain elapsed time
# During (said of periods of time).
Into.
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(obsolete) To enclose; to take in; to harvest.
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(lb) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
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Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
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(lb) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
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(lb) Abbreviation of in aid of.
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After the beginning of something.
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(sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting – see innings
A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
In fashion; popular.
Incoming.
(nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
(legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
(chiefly, poetic, dialectal, and in combination) often; frequently; not rarely; many times.
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As a preposition in
is in, into, within.As an initialism oft is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Preposition
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- In returning to the vault, I had no very sure purpose in mind; only a vague surmise that this finding of Blackbeard's coffin would somehow lead to the finding of his treasure.
- Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
- tourists sometimes attempt to pay in euros or British pounds.
Verb
- He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave to in the crop.
Etymology 2
(etyl) inneAdverb
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Noun
(en noun)- His parents got him an in with the company
Antonyms
* outAdjective
(en adjective)- Skirts are in this year.
- the in train''
- in''' by descent; '''in''' by purchase; '''in of the seisin of her husband
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Etymology 3
Statistics
*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 8oft
English
Adverb
(er)- An oft -told tale
page 45,
- What I can do, can do no hurt to try: / Since you ?et up your re?t 'gain?t remedy: / He that of greate?t works is fini?her, / Oft does them by the weake?t mini?ter; / So holy writ in babes hath judgment ?hown, / When judges have been babes.
page 403,
- And how is it that they, the sons of fame, / Whose inspiration seems to them to shine / From high, they whom the nations oftest name, / Must pass their days in penury or pain, / Or step to grandeur through the paths of shame, / And wear a deeper brand and gaudier chain?
page 203,
- The moonlight falls the softest / In Kentucky; / The summer days come oftest / In Kentucky;