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into
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
- To or towards the inside of.
- To or towards the region of.
- Against, especially with force or violence.
- 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.
- 2002, Matt Cyr, Something to Teach Me: Journal of an American in the Mountains of Haiti, Educa Vision, Inc., ?ISBN, 25:
- After the start of.
- (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
- (Britain, 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 (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
- eagerness, enthusiasm
- odottaa innolla (+ partitive) = to look forward to
- passion, fervour/fervor, ardour/ardor
- 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
- in the (+ a masculine name in the singular)
Synonyms
- ne-o
Coordinate terms
- inta
- inte
- inti
Middle English
Preposition
into
- Alternative spelling of in-to
Neapolitan
Etymology
From Latin intus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ind??/
Preposition
into
- in (surrounded by)
Old English
Etymology
in +? t?
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /in?to?/
Preposition
int?
- 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)
- thing
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Xhosa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [í??tó]
Noun
íntó 9 (plural ízintó 10)
- thing
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Yemsa
Noun
into
- 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)
- thing
Inflection
References
- C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-tho”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “-tho (2-6.3)”
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across
English
Alternative forms
- acrost (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English acros, acrosse, equivalent to a- +? cross. Compare also Middle English acrois, a-croiz, acreoiz, from Anglo-Norman an (“in, on”) + croiz (“in the form of a cross”). More at cross.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?-kr?s?, IPA(key): /??k??s/
- (General American) enPR: ?-krôs?, IPA(key): /??k??s/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) enPR: ?-kr?s?, IPA(key): /??k??s/
- Rhymes: -?s, -??s
- Hyphenation: across
Preposition
across
- To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
- (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) across from: on the opposite side, relative to something that lies between, from (a point of interest).
- 1994 June 21, Thong P Tong <[email protected]>, "Re: Battle Tech Center", message-ID <[email protected]>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, Usenet [1]:
- And make sure you're parked across the mall in the outside lot. […] Last time I was there, I parked in a parking structure and paid an arm and a leg for it.
- 1995, Ronald Kessler, Inside the White House, 1996 edition, ?ISBN, page 243 [2]:
- On another occasion, Clinton asked Patterson to drive him to Chelsea's school, Booker Elementary, where Clinton met the department store clerk and climbed into her car.
- "I parked across the entrance and stood outside the car looking around, about 120 feet from where they were parked in a lot that was pretty well lit," Patterson recalled. " […] They stayed in the car for thirty to forty minutes."
- 2011, Danielle Butler, Scars of Eternity, p. 30:
- A boy that sat across me politely introduced himself as Jackson Klausner.
- 1994 June 21, Thong P Tong <[email protected]>, "Re: Battle Tech Center", message-ID <[email protected]>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games, Usenet [1]:
- From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
- At or near the far end of (a space).
- 2004, Josephine Cox, Lovers and Liars, ?ISBN, page 78 [3]:
- "Mam's baking and Cathleen's asleep. I've got a pile of washing bubbling in the copper, so I'd best be off." With that she was across the room and out the door.
- 2004, Josephine Cox, Lovers and Liars, ?ISBN, page 78 [3]:
- Spanning.
- Throughout.
- So as to intersect or pass through or over at an angle.
- 2010, Alex Bledsoe, The Girls with Games of Blood, Tor, ?ISBN, page 147 [4]:
- He parked across the end of the driveway, blocking her in.
- 2010, Alex Bledsoe, The Girls with Games of Blood, Tor, ?ISBN, page 147 [4]:
- In possession of full, up-to-date information about; abreast of.
- 2019, Lenore Taylor, The Guardian, 20 September:
- As a regular news reader I thought I was across the eccentricities of the US president.
- 2019, Lenore Taylor, The Guardian, 20 September:
Derived terms
Related terms
- cross
Translations
Adverb
across (not comparable)
- From one side to the other.
- On the other side.
- In a particular direction.
- (crosswords) Horizontally.
Translations
Noun
across (plural acrosses)
- (crosswords, often in combination) A word that runs horizontally in the completed puzzle grid or its associated clue.
- I solved all of the acrosses, but then got stuck on 3 down.
Further reading
- across in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- across in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- across at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Oscars, ROSCAs, Rascos, caross, oscars
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