different between crush vs into

English

Etymology

From Middle English cruschen (“to crush, smash, squeeze, squash”), from Old French croissir (“to crush”), from Late Latin *cruscio (“to brush”), from Frankish *krostjan (“to crush, squeeze, squash”). Akin to Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (kriustan, “to gnash”), Old Swedish krusa (“to crush”), Middle Low German krossen (“to break”), Swedish krysta (“to squeeze”), Danish kryste (“to squash”), Icelandic kreista (“to squeeze, squash”), Faroese kroysta (“to squeeze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

crush (countable and uncountable, plural crushes)

1. A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
2. Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
3. A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.

   a crush at a reception

4. A violent crowding.
5. A crowd control barrier.
6. A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
7. (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.

   I've had a huge crush on her since we met many years ago.

   1. (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
   • 2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     It had taken nine years from the evening that Truman first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.

8. A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
9. (dated) A party or festive function.
   • 1890, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray chapter 1

     Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon's.

10. (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
11. (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    black crush; white crush

Hyponyms

• (infatuation): squish

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

crush (third-person singular simple present crushes, present participle crushing, simple past and past participle crushed)

1. To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass.

   to crush grapes

   • 1769, Benjamin Blayney, King James Bible : Leviticus 22:24

     Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut

2. To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding

   Synonym: comminute

   to crush quartz

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     With a wild scream he was upon her, tearing a great piece from her side with his mighty teeth, and striking her viciously upon her head and shoulders with a broken tree limb until her skull was crushed to a jelly.

3. (figuratively) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.

   After the corruption scandal, the opposition crushed the ruling party in the elections

4. (figuratively, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).

   They had a gig recently at Madison Square—totally crushed it!

5. To oppress or grievously burden.
7. To overcome completely; to subdue totally.

   The sultan's black guard crushed every resistance bloodily.
8. (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller compass, by external weight or force

   an eggshell crushes easily

9. (intransitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.

   She's crushing on him.
10. (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
    • 2003, Michel Chion, The Films of Jacques Tati (page 78)

      He frames his subject in distant close-ups (we feel the distance, due mostly to the crushed perspective brought about by the telephoto lens).

    • 2010, Birgit Bräuchler, John Postill, Theorising Media and Practice (page 319)

      They realise that trajectories, space expansion and crushing are different with different lenses, whether wide angle or telephoto, and that actors' eyelines will be altered.

11. (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

    My old TV set crushes the blacks when the brightness is lowered.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (trans, to squeeze into a permanent new shape) squash
• (to pound or grind into fine particles) pulverize, pulverise
• (to overwhelm) overtake
• (to impress at) ace; slay at, kill

Translations

References

• crush in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Rusch, Schur, churs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English crush.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k???/, /?k???/

Noun

crush m or m f (in variation) (plural crushes or crush)

1. (colloquial) crush (a love interest)

English

Etymology

From Middle English in-to, from Old English int?, equivalent to in +? to. Cognate with Scots intae.

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.tu?/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /??n.tu/
• (unstressed, before consonants) IPA^(key): /??n.t?/
• (unstressed, before vowels) IPA^(key): /??n.t?/
• Hyphenation: in?to

Preposition

into

1. To or towards the inside of.

2. To or towards the region of.

3. Against, especially with force or violence.

4. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
   • 2002, Matt Cyr, Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Educa Vision, Inc., ?ISBN, 25:

     His English is still in its beginning stages, like my Creole, but he was able to translate some Creole songs that he's written into English—not the best English, but English nonetheless.

5. After the start of.

6. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.

7. (Britain, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.

8. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".

9. Investigating the subject (of).

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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

Anagrams

• -tion, -toin, Toni, noit, oint, on it

Finnish

Etymology

From dialectal inta, from Proto-Finnic *inta (compare Estonian ind, Livonian ind), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic [Term?] (compare Old Swedish inna (“achievement, accomplishment”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?into/, [?in?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -into
• Syllabification: in?to

Noun

into

1. eagerness, enthusiasm

   odottaa innolla (+ partitive) = to look forward to

2. passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
3. zeal, fanaticism

Declension

Synonyms

• (eagerness, enthusiasm): innokkuus, innostus
• (passion, fervo(u)r, ardo(u)r): intohimo
• (zeal, fanaticism): kiihko

Derived terms

Compounds

• intohimo
• intomieli

Anagrams

• Toni, otin, toin

Ligurian

Etymology

Contraction of inte (“in”) + o m sg (“the”, definite article).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?tu/

Contraction

into

1. in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)

Synonyms

• ne-o

Coordinate terms

• inta
• inte
• inti

Middle English

Preposition

into

1. Alternative spelling of in-to

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin intus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ind??/

Preposition

into

1. in (surrounded by)

Old English

Etymology

in +? t?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in?to?/

Preposition

int?

1. into

Descendants

• Middle English: in-to, into, inne to, jn to, jne to, inte
  • English: into
  • Scots: intae

Southern Ndebele

Noun

întó 9 (plural ízintó 10)

1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Xhosa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [í??tó]

Noun

íntó 9 (plural ízintó 10)

1. thing

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Yemsa

Noun

into

1. mother

References

• David Appleyard, Beja as a Cushitic language, in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In Memoriam W. Vycichl (Yem into "mother")

Zulu

Etymology

From in- +? -tha (“to name, to choose”) +? -o. Compare with a similar derivation in Swahili jambo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /î?ntó/

Noun

întó 9 (plural ízintó 10)

1. thing

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-tho”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “-tho (2-6.3)”