It vs Into - What's the difference?
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The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, to an inanimate thing with no or unknown sex or gender.
A third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to a child of unknown gender.
* 1847 , Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre , Chapter IV:
Used to refer to oneself when identifying oneself, often on the phone, but not limited to this situation.
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement. (known as the dummy pronoun or weather it)
The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object. (known as the dummy pronoun or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive)
All or the end; something after which there is no more.
(obsolete, relative) That which; what.
* 1643 , (Thomas Browne), Religio Medici , II.2:
One who is neither a he nor a she; a creature; a dehumanized being.
* 1995 , Neil Weiner, Sharon E. Robinson Kurpius, Shattered innocence (page 8)
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
The person who chases and tries to catch the other players in the playground game of tag.
* 2000 , Katherine T. Thomas, Amelia M. Lee, Jerry R. Thomas, Physical education for children (page 464)
(British, uncountable) The game of tag.
(colloquial) most fashionable.
* Vibe , Vol. 15, No. 9, p. 202, September 2007:
* David Germain,
(language) Italian.
Italy.
Going inside (of).
*
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, title= Going to a geographic region.
Against, especially with force or violence.
Producing, becoming.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
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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.
* 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
As a symbol it
is the iso 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for italy.As an initialism into is
the irish national teacher's organisation.it
English
(wikipedia it)Alternative forms
* (dialectal) (l)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m) ( > English dialectal . More at (l).Alternative forms
* itt (obsolete)Pronoun
- Put it over there.
- Take each day as it comes.
- She took the baby and held it in her arms.
- A child cannot quarrel with its' elders, as I had done; cannot give ' its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
- It' s me. John.
- It is nearly 10 o’clock.
- It ’s very cold today.
- It ’s lonely without you.
- It is easy to see how she would think that.
- I find it odd that you would say that.
- He saw to it that everyone would vote for him.
- Are there more students in this class, or is this it ?
- That's it —I'm not going to any more candy stores with you.
- In briefe, I am content, and what should providence add more? Surely this is it wee call Happinesse, and this doe I enjoy [...].
Quotations
* (English Citations of "it")Derived terms
(Derived terms) * buy it * do it * for it * move it * that’s it * watch itSee also
* he * her * him * I * me * she * thee * them * they * thou * us * we * ye * youNoun
(en noun)- Too often, children become an "it " in their homes and their humanness is devalued.
- His master glanced up quickly, and removed the letter from his hands. "I'm surprised at you, James," he remarked severely. "A secretary should control itself. Don't forget that the perfect secretary is an it : an automatic machine—a thing incapable of feeling.…"
- In the next game, Adam and Tom will be it …
- When there are only two children left who haven't been tagged, I will stop the game, and we will start over with those children starting as the Its .
- Let's play it at breaktime.
Adjective
(-)- Going away for the weekend and feel the need to profile en route? This is the "it " bag.
Hilarious ‘Kick-Ass’ delivers bloody fun, Associated Press, 2010:
- With Hit Girl, Moretz is this year's It Girl, alternately sweet, savage and scary.
Etymology 2
Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)Derived terms
* gin and it, gin-and-ItSee also
* ITStatistics
*into
English
(wikipedia into)Preposition
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