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Into - What does it mean?

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The difference between into and is:

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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    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.