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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

  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)”

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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/
  • (cotcaught merger, Canada) enPR: ?-kr?s?, IPA(key): /??k??s/
  • Rhymes: -?s, -??s
  • Hyphenation: across

Preposition

across

  1. To, toward, or from the far side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
  2. On the opposite side of (something that lies between two points of interest).
  3. (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.
  4. From one side to the other within (a space being traversed).
  5. 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.
  6. Spanning.
  7. Throughout.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • cross

Translations

Adverb

across (not comparable)

  1. From one side to the other.
  2. On the other side.
  3. In a particular direction.
  4. (crosswords) Horizontally.

Translations

Noun

across (plural acrosses)

  1. (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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