into
470
1.0
- adposition
- /ˈɪntu/
:
en
- You've been going into my house, my fridge.
- take into account
- fall into the forties
- go into the hundreds
It doesn't fit into any scale or chart.
- It doesn't fit into any scale or chart.
- Because most people don't neatly fit into two camps.
- How does nuclear power fit into your fossil future?
- So three months into the deal, I get Anna Winter.
- How do those two periods fit into this for you?
- But how does that fit into the idea of regeneration?
- And then where does it fit into certain enzymatic reactions?
Examples
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He worked hard to get his grades into the top tier of his class.
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I finally had a chance to go out into the great big world and see what it had to offer.
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Can you get your voice into that show?
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And this is where the sample size also comes into play, right?
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I had no idea what I was getting into.
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Three cars are tied for the season points lead, heading into the final race of the season.
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I went over to the window and looked out into the court, onto other lighted windows.
Fiction book (1993) -
Few colleges and universities require credits in the arts for entrance into higher education programs.
Academic text (1999) -
The pension funds, the retail market, and everybody else jump into it at or after the IPO.
Academic text (1999) -
I think that's a very fast way to get into misinformation.
Synonyms
Idioms
- Informal
19
7.3
Make a person or company exhausted to the point of ruin by pushing them too hard
- Literature
12
6.0
To move toward a happy, peaceful future, often at the end of a story
- Informal
8
7.4
Put yourself in a difficult situation with no easy way out
- Informal
5
5.3
To start doing your normal work and activities after a break
4
8.2
To step forward and help in a difficult situation when others cannot or will not
- Informal
3
8.2
Make people very afraid and make them respect you by showing power
- Informal
1
5.1
Become the main focus of people's attention after doing something important
- Informal
1
7.7
To become quiet and avoid talking to others when you feel shy or anxious
- Informal
1
7.8
Start a difficult task without much preparation or experience
1
8.6
Cause problems on purpose that stop a plan or process from working smoothly
- Literature
To change weapons into tools for peaceful work like farming
- Literature
To try again to face a difficult situation even after failing before
- Informal
Escaping a bad situation and ending in a much worse one
- Archaic
A small action that does almost nothing to change a big problem
- Informal
To get stuck in a problem that keeps getting worse and is hard to leave
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Morphology
into = (semi-transparent) = in + to
This sense metaphorically maps physical entry onto entry into a numerical or scalar range, which is understandable but not fully literal. [Postprocessing: moved 'in', 'to' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Into comes from the parts in and to, meaning 'enter' or 'inside', so when amounts move into a range they are 'entering' that level. That's why we say sales rose into the millions when they reached that amount.