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TO GO IN FOR

Definition: TO GO IN FOR

TO GO IN FOR

1. [Colloq.] (a) To go for; to favor or advocate (a candidate, a measure, etc.). (b) To seek to acquire or attain to (wealth, honor, preferment, etc.) (c) To complete for (a reward, election, etc.). (d) To make the object of one's labors, studies, etc. He was as ready to go in for statistics as for anything else. --Dickens.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Modern Translation: TO GO IN FOR

Language Translations for "TO GO IN FOR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

(to do, to get hold of, to make, to set up, to take care of). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vmilyen pályára lép (to go in for sg, to take up), vmi iránt érdeklődik (to go in for sg), színpadra lép (to appear on the scene, to come on the scene, to go in for acting, to go on the stage), színészetre adja magát (to go in for acting), sportol (to do sports, to go in for sports, to sport), érdeklődik vmi iránt (to be interested in sg, to go in for sg). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ogay inay orfay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO GO IN FOR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-i-n-o-o-o-r-t"

-2 letters: footing, roofing, rooting.

-3 letters: forgot, forint, trigon, trogon.

-4 letters: forgo, front, giron, gonif, gonof, grift, griot, groin, ingot, intro, nitro, tigon, trigo.

-5 letters: fino, firn, foin, font, foot, fort, frig, frit, frog, gift, girn, giro, girt, goof, goon, grin, grit, grot, info, inro, into, iron, noir, nori, onto, rift, ring, riot, roof, root, roti.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-i-n-o-o-o-r-t"
 

+3 letters: mothproofing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO GO IN FOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      47 4F      49 4E      46 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

            

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000111 01001111 00100000 01001001 01001110 00100000 01000110 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#71 &#79 &#32 &#73 &#78 &#32 &#70 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0047 004F      0049 004E      0046 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544924149243482404952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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