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Definition: INTO |
INTOPreposition1. Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly. 2. Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words. 3. Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition. 4. Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment. 5. Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants. 6. To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications. |
"INTO" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the enthusiasm". |
Date "INTO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: In, Into. In is often incorrectly used for into; as, "He hurried up the street and rushed in the store." We walk in a room when the walking is wholly within the apartment; we walk into a room when we enter it from some other room or from the outside. Usage: In, Into. Into implies direction or motion. "They walked into the church," means that they entered it from the outside. "They walked in the church," means that they walked back and forth within the church. "The vessel is in port." "She came into port yesterday." Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| INSTILL | English | Integrating New Systems and Technologies into Lifelong Learning | Education |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
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Screenplays | They want me to get into the character debate and mix it up. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) I haven't even touched you yet and you're turning into the Sears Tower (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg) Our society cannot condone men who take the law into their own hands (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) You gave me the dark gift, and I delivered you into the hands of death for the second time (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) It fell into my lap. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) | |
Lyrics | When I look into you eyes (When I Look Into Your Eyes; performing artist: Firehouse) Somethin' tells me I'm into something good (I'm into Something Good; performing artist: Herman's Hermits) Some kind of night into your darkness (Fade Into You; performing artist: Mazzy Star) Your beautiful eyes looking deep into mine (Invisible Man; performing artist: 98 Degrees; writing credit: Dane DeViller, Sean Hosein, and Steve Kipner) You into me (Try Again; performing artist: Aaliyah) | |
Clever | Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. (references; author: Mel Brooks) In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows. (references; author: Woody Allen) We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world. (references; author: Mark Twain) Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. (references; author: Malabar Proverb) Boredom sets into boring minds. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | How much caramel can a canny cannibal cram into a camel, if a canny cannibal can cram caramel into a camel? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dearreader: How to Turn a Book Into a Movie (1974) Long Day's Journey Into Night (1973) Escape Into Night (1972) Fly Into Danger (1972) Walk Into the Dark (1972) | |
Song Titles | I'm Into Something Good (performing artist: Herman's Hermits) Come Into My Heart (performing artist: Lloyd Price) INTO THE GROOVE (performing artist: Madonna ) Fade Into You (performing artist: Mazzy Star) Jump Into The Fire (performing artist: Nilsson) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | 1) A temporary administration building for M.D. Anderson was set up in 1940 in this converted residence known as "the oaks" on the former Baker Estate near downtown Houston. 2) biochemistry and biology laboratories were set up in late 1942 by five scientists using this one-time stable and carriage house on the old Baker Estate. The first patients were seen in other converted residential quarters starting in March, 1944. 3) the permanent home for University of Texas M.D. Anderson hospital began taking shape in the early 1950s in the newly designated Texas Medical Center, which only a few years earlier had been "way out in the woods". 4) M.D. Anderson's first seven-story structure was opened for patient care on March 19, 1954. This initial building contained 310 beds, which were phased into use over a five-year period, along with facilities for cancer research and educational activities. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | This is a histologic slide of breast cancer cells that have grown out the ducts and into the surrounding tissue displacing normal cells. Stained with H&E and magnified to 200x. Credit: Dr. Cecil Fox (photographer). |
 | Illustration of Omaya valve implanted to instill medicine into brain. Intrathecal. Credit: CDC. |  | A jet injector is a device that uses gaseous pressure to propel drugs or vaccines through the outer layers of the skin, and into the underlying subcutaneous tissues. This is accomplished without the use of needles. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Pagode" by Rainer Wonisch. Use the Scrollbar to vary A, and transform a building into a flower. |  | "Dodecahedron" by Владимир Смирнов (Vladimir Smirnov). Use DPGraph's scrollbar to vary the parameter A to change the dodecahedron into a cube or a rhombohedron. |
 | Space Shuttle Enterprise Lifted into Dynamic Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |  | Saturn V, S-II Stage is Lifted into Test Stand. Credit: NASA. |
 | Expanding its broadcast universe far beyond the Baltimore area and into cyberspace, the ... Credit: NASA. |  | Peering deep into the globular star cluster M4 with the Hubble telescope, Canadian and ... Credit: NASA. |
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| "Into Victory 1" by Rhia Ward Commentary: "Gorgeous performance." | "Look into it" by Noie Shives Commentary: "Blurry eye." |
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 | Sustained synthesized chords slowly torn into other chords. | | Pouring carbonated soda from a can into a glass. |
| Inserting change into a soda machine; soda can dropping to the receiving tray. | | Pouring water from a pitcher into two glasses. |
| Pouring coins into a bowl. | | Car skidding uncontrollably then crashing into another car and shattering glass. |
| Pouring water from a pitcher into a glass. | | Glug glug of the water cooler jug emptying into the crock. |
| Car skidding and crashing into something. | | Coin being dropped into an empty jar and bouncing on the glass. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | The wishing gate opens into nothing. |
Graffiti | Laughter translates into any language. |
John Heywood | Out of God's blessing into the warm sun. |
Julius Caesar | All Gaul is divided into three parts. |
Ovid | Habits change into character. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | All diseases run into one. Old age. |
Robert Schuller | Turn your scars into stars. |
Sophocles | No falsehood lingers on into old age. |
William Shakespeare | Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | If one who has borrowed from the Jews any sum, great or small, die before that loan be repaid, the debt shall not bear interest while the heir is under age, of whomsoever he may hold; and if the debt fall into our hands, we will not take anything except the principal sum contained in the bond. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | What is my remedy against a robber, that so broke into my house? Appeal to the law for justice. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 2: Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | In some cases, then, the constitution must be looked into by the judges. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Here and there the contest breaks out into riots. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | And I further declare and make known that such persons of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. (Abraham Lincoln) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Importation into Germany of arms, munitions and war material of every kind shall be strictly prohibited. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It could have been prevented in my belief without the firing of a single shot, and Germany might be powerful, prosperous and honored to-day; but no one would listen and one by one we were all sucked into the awful whirlpool. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | As it was, I was only betrayed into paying a most unreasonable visit |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | I moved away a few steps, and waited to follow her into the carriage, where I resumed the conversation |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | The quarter was so long, that he was more than once convinced he must have sunk into a doze unconsciously, and missed the clock |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The victory accomplished, Pearl returned quietly to her mother, and looked up, smiling, into her face |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In our days, a philosophy which is almost an official has entered into its service, wears its livery, and waits in its antechamber |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Then replacing the jar in the locker he poured a little of the whisky into two glasses, added a little water and came back with them to the fireplace |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | And all my armour laid into my tent |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And the women went quickly, quietly back into the houses and herded the children ahead of them |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | First they can decipher all initial letters into political meanings |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It seemed as if I might next cast my line upward into the air, as well as downward into this element, which was scarcely more dense |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Cut foods into small pieces. (references) | |
Age is not taken into account. (references) | ||
Tuck your shirt into your pants. (references) | ||
Business | The revenue is being put back into Telekom. (references) | |
Dual voltage can be imported into the Kingdom. (references) | ||
All equipment is imported freely into Morocco. (references) | ||
Children | Kyrgyz Republic | Children often are intimidated into signing confessions. (references) |
Switzerland | Any pornography involving children falls into this category. (references) | |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Steps were taken during the year to integrate minority students into some schools. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Ullah reportedly went into hiding. (references) |
Romania | Programs for integrating refugees into society are developing slowly. (references) | |
Cyprus | Requests to cross into the north must be submitted 48 hours in advance. (references) | |
Discrimination | Syria | Party or government connections can pave the way for entrance into better elementary and secondary schools, access to lucrative employment, and greater power within the Government, the military, and the security services. (references) |
Hong Kong | The Bill of Rights Ordinance, which provides for the incorporation into law of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as applied to Hong Kong, entitles residents to the civil and political rights recognized therein "without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status." However, the ordinance binds only the Government, public authorities and persons acting on their behalf; that is, not private persons or entities. (references) | |
Economic History | Algeria | Each wilaya is further divided into communes. (references) |
Human Rights | Switzerland | Cantonal laws regulate police entry into private premises. (references) |
Uganda | The soldiers allegedly shot into the crowd to disperse them. (references) | |
Guyana | On June 21, a judge ordered an inquiry into McKinnon's death. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Brazil | Amnesty International also called for an investigation into the incident. (references) |
Taiwan | The sale of Aborigine children into prostitution by their parents reportedly no longer occurs. (references) | |
India | The Chhatisgarh state came into existence in November 2000, and the Jharkhand state came into existence in the same month. (references) | |
Minorities | Seychelles | Creoles are well integrated into society, business, and politics. (references) |
Ethiopia | Police shot into the air after they were called in to restore order. (references) | |
Slovak Republic | The skinheads were taken into custody, and later released without being charged. (references) | |
Political Economy | TURKEY | The BIT entered into force in May 1990. (references) |
Cambodia | A new land law went into effect in July. (references) | |
Brazil | State police are divided into two forces. (references) | |
Political Rights | Cameroon | While alone inside a closed booth, citizens choose a ballot and seal it into an envelope. (references) |
Cameroon | Citizens then exit the booth and vote by depositing the sealed envelope into a ballot box. (references) | |
Burundi | On June 4, 1998, Buyoya's regime and the National Assembly entered into a partnership agreement. (references) | |
Trade | Guatemala | Al documents most be translated into Spanish. (references) |
Japan | Certain products are prohibited import into Japan. (references) | |
Austria | Alcoholic beverages fall into the 20% VAT category. (references) | |
Travel | Burma | No kyat may be brought into or taken out of Burma. (references) |
Colombia | Internet connections are coming into increasing use in Colombia. (references) | |
Chad | Material translated into Chadian Arabic is usually not necessary. (references) | |
Women | Solomon Islands | A shortage of jobs inhibits the entry of women into the work force. (references) |
New Zealand | Prostitution is legal; however, organizing and recruiting women into prostitution is not. (references) | |
Congo | Women sometimes are forced into prostitution by their families out of economic necessity. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Haiti | Five members went into hiding. (references) |
India | Persons sometimes are sold into virtual slavery. (references) | |
Burkina Faso | Malian children also are trafficked into the country. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INK, n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. There are men called journalists who have established ink baths which some persons pay money to get into, others to get out of. Not infrequently it occurs that a person who has paid to get in pays twice as much to get out. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Barry Manilow | You got it. And I wasn't bad, believe it or not. But that would have been it, had Willie not come into my life. |
Dennis Miller | Okay, so when we needed to get into Afghanistan, we dropped some crates of food on the starving Afghanis. |
House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner | Absolutely, and there's a bipartisan commission that's looking into that. Give them until January, and then the heads can start rolling. |
Jermaine Jackson | It's a bigger price tag the publishing instead of the LP. We'll go into that later. It is a bigger price tag. |
John McCain | My spiel is, if you're fair-skinned, watch for discolorations. Don't let your kids out into the sun without sunscreen on. |
Marla Hanson | Right. I took four years off to raise my child. Now I'm starting to get back into the writing. I'm actually working on a book this time. |
Paul Harvey | Sure, I still pound every word into an IBM Selectric. I did get that far. I used a manual typewriter until a just a few years ago. |
Rush Limbaugh | But if you're into saving lives, ban tobacco! |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | An estimate of the necessary appropriations, including the expenditures into which we have been driven by the insurrection, will be submitted to Congress. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Two others are yet to be laid up so soon as they shall have received the repairs requisite to put them also into sound condition. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | There are many new responsibilities for us as we enter into this new international era. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Free Europe is entering into a new phase of its long and brilliant history. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Reconciliation of private needs and interests into a higher purpose. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Idle industries have cast workers into unemployment, causing human misery and personal indignity. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | What a group of kids we've sent into the world. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let's bring excellence into every part of America. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "INTO" is generally used as a preposition (except "of") -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "INTO" is used about 163,297 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Preposition (except "of") | 100% | 163,296 | 61 |
| Total | 100.00% | 163,297 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "INTO": a voyage into the unknown ♦ ability to enter into ♦ act of binding into sheaves ♦ ad out of the frying pan into the fire ♦ admit into one's confidence ♦ admit smb. into one's confidence ♦ Advanced techniques integration into efficient scientific application software ♦ Advisory Committee on Research into Minorities ♦ argue into ♦ argue smb. into smth. ♦ back into ♦ bang into ♦ bang sense into smb. ♦ barge into ♦ barge into smb. ♦ barge into the room ♦ bash into smb. ♦ be born into a rich family ♦ be brought into the world ♦ be carried into effect ♦ be driven into a corner ♦ be driven into debts ♦ be into ♦ be into effect ♦ be into service ♦ be led into error ♦ be resolved into ♦ be sent into the wilderness ♦ be transformed into ♦ be translated into action ♦ be ushered into this world ♦ beat a nail into ♦ beat into ♦ beat into the head ♦ beat smb. into a jelly ♦ beat smth. into smb.'s head ♦ beguile smb. into doing smth. ♦ bend into shape ♦ bite into ♦ blend into the background ♦ blend into the crowd ♦ blossom into ♦ blow into ♦ bluff smb. into believing smth. ♦ blunder into ♦ blunder into a trap ♦ bore into smth. ♦ bounce into ♦ branch off into ♦ break into ♦ break into a chord ♦ break into a gallop ♦ break into a laugh ♦ break into a song ♦ break into a trot ♦ break into applause ♦ break into blossom ♦ break into laughter ♦ break into perspiration ♦ break into pieces ♦ break into segment ♦ break into song ♦ break into tears ♦ break out into ♦ break out into a sweat ♦ break out into blossom ♦ break smth. into pieces ♦ break up into ♦ breaking into pieces ♦ breaking up into smaller units ♦ breathe air into ♦ breathe into ♦ breathe new life into ♦ bring into ♦ bring into a focus ♦ bring into account ♦ bring into action ♦ bring into being ♦ bring into contempt ♦ bring into derision ♦ bring into disrepute ♦ bring into existence ♦ bring into fashion ♦ bring into force ♦ bring into line ♦ bring into operation ♦ bring into play ♦ bring into position ♦ bring into question ♦ bring into safety ♦ bring into the open ♦ bring into the world ♦ bring into trouble ♦ bring more into line ♦ bring smb. into discredit ♦ bring smb. into notoriety ♦ bringing into state of equilibrium ♦ broken into pieces ♦ browbeat into ♦ bump into ♦ bump into each other. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "INTO": into-each, into-laughter, into-themselves, into-wind. | |
Ending with "INTO": entered-into, sink-into, well-into. | |
Containing "INTO": wet-into-wet. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "INTO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | per (a, by, by means of, in, inside, on, per, through, with, within), op (a, in, inside, on, per, upon, within), in (a, in, in it, inside, on, per, within), binne (a, in, inside, on, per, within). (various references) | |
Albanian | në (against, at, in, inside, on, onto, per, to, under, upon, within). (various references) | |
Arabic | في الداخل (in, indoors, inland, inside, therein), في داخل, عن قرب, الى (for, till, to). (various references) | |
Basque | haserratu (fly into a passion to). (various references) | |
Breton | e (his, in). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | към (about, around, nearby, of, off, on, somewhere about, to, towards, unto, with), в (aboard, about, against, around, at, by, down, in, inside, on, to, under, unto, up, within), на (aboard, against, at, by, for, in, of, on, onto, over, per, to, unto, up, upon, with). (various references) | |
Catalan | en (in, inside, on, per, within), a (at, in, inside, on, per, to, toward, towards, within). (various references) | |
Chinese | 入 (Entranced, Entrancing). (various references) | |
Croatian | unovèiti (convert into cash), u (at, in, in at, in into, to). (various references) | |
Czech | v (amid, at, in, inside of, on, under, upon, within), na (about, aft, against, at, by, for, in, on, onto, over, per, to, upon, with), dovnitř (in, inwardly, inwards), do (by, for, in, on, over, to, under, unto). (various references) | |
Danish | på (at, by, from, in, inside, of, on, per, since, to, toward, towards, upon, within), om (about, around, by, concerning, for, from, in, inside, of, on, per, round, since, towards, upon, within), i (for, in, inside, on, per, this, thou, within, ye, you, you formal, you formal plural). (various references) | |
Dutch | in (at, by, in, inside, on, per, upon, with, within), te (at, by, in, inside, on, per, to, too, too much, upon, within, without), per (an, by, by means of, in, inside, on, per, through, with, within), binnen (in, inside, on, per, till, until, within). (various references) | |
Esperanto | en (in, inside, on, per, within). (various references) | |
Estonian | sisse. (various references) | |
Faeroese | í (a, during, for, in, inside, on, per, whereas, while, whilst, within). (various references) | |
Farsi | مقارن (Against, Toward), نسبت به (Than, Toward), توی (Aboard, In, Within), اندر (In), درمیان (Across, Amid, Amidst, Among, Between, Betwixt, Midst), درظرف (In, Within), به (Against, At, Bah, In, Oh, On, Quince), بسوی (Against, At, To, Toward), بطرف (At, In, On, To, Toward, With). (various references) | |
Finnish | vaihtua (be changed, change, shift), tunkea (crowd, force, jam, press, squeeze into), -ssa (a, in, inside, on, per, within), sisään. (various references) | |
French | dans (in, inside), en (in, inside). (various references) | |
French Canadian | en (in). (various references) | |
Frisian | yn (a, in, inside, on, per, within). (various references) | |
Galician | a (at, the, to). (various references) | |
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