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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IN'TO, prep. [in and to.] Noting entrance or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts. It follows verbs expressing motion. Come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another. Water enters into the fine vessels of plants.
1. Noting penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to it. Look into a letter or book; look into an apartment.
2. Noting insertion. Infuse more spirit or animation into the composition.
3. Noting mixture. Put other ingredients into the compound.
4. Noting inclusion. Put these ideas into other words.
5. Noting the passing of a thing from one form or state to another. 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 reduce many distinct substances into one mass. We are led by evidence into belief of truth. Men are often enticed into the commission of crimes. Children are sometimes frightened into fits, and we are all liable to be seduced into error and folly.

Merriam Webster's

preposition Etymology: Middle English, from Old English int?, from ²in + t? to Date: before 12th century 1. — used as a function word to indicate entry, introduction, insertion, superposition, or inclusion <came into the house> <enter into an alliance> 2. a. to the state, condition, or form of <got into trouble> b. to the occupation, action, or possession of <go into farming> c. involved with or interested in <into hard drugs> <into Latin epigrammatists> 3. — used as a function word to indicate a period of time or an extent of space part of which is passed or occupied <far into the night> 4. in the direction of <looking into the sun> 5. to a position of contact with ; against <ran into a wall> 6. — used as a function word to indicate the dividend in division <dividing 3 into 6 gives 2>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

prep. 1 expressing motion or direction to a point on or within (walked into a tree; ran into the house). 2 expressing direction of attention or concern (will look into it). 3 expressing a change of state (turned into a dragon; separated into groups; forced into cooperation). 4 colloq. interested in; knowledgeable about (is really into art). Etymology: OE into (as IN, TO)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Into In"to, prep. [In + to.] To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition. 4. Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words. 5. 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. Note: Compare In.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

(b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health. To run down a coast, to sail along it. To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an office. To run in or into. (a) To enter; to step in. (b) To come in collision with. To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.] To run in with. (a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] --T. Baker. (b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as, to run in with the land. To run mad, To run mad after or on. See under Mad. To run on. (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. (b) To talk incessantly. (c) To continue a course. (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on. (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph. To run out. (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out at Michaelmas. (b) To extend; to spread. ``Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs.'' --Hammond. (c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions. (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will soon run out. And had her stock been less, no doubt She must have long ago run out. --Dryden. To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child. To run riot, to go to excess. To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book. (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate. To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind. To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast. But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. --Sir W. Scott. To run with. (a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the streets ran with blood. (b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance. ``Its rivers ran with gold.'' --J. H. Newman.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sound Sound, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF. soner, suner, F. sonner, from L. sonare. See Sound a noise.] 1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound.'' --Dryden. How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! --Shak. 2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. From you sounded out the word of the Lord. --1 Thess. i. 8. 3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence, to seem; to appear; as, this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention. Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? --Shak. To sound in or into, to tend to; to partake of the nature of; to be consonant with. [Obs., except in the phrase To sound in damages, below.] Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech. --Chaucer. To sound in damages (Law), to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing, as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the like.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Thrust Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject. To thrust in, to push or drive in. To thrust off, to push away. To thrust on, to impel; to urge. To thrust one's self in or into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times thrust through the doublet.'' --Shak. To thrust together, to compress.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Eat Eat, v. i. 1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam. ix. 13. 2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef. 3. To make one's way slowly. To eat, To eat in or into, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. ``A sword laid by, which eats into itself.'' --Byron. To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: In addition to the uses shown below, 'into' is used after some verbs and nouns in order to introduce extra information. 'Into' is also used with verbs of movement, such as 'walk' and 'push', and in phrasal verbs such as 'enter into' and 'talk into'. 1. If you put one thing into another, you put the first thing inside the second. Combine the remaining ingredients and put them into a dish... Until the 1980s almost all olives were packed into jars by hand. = in PREP 2. If you go into a place or vehicle, you move from being outside it to being inside it. I have no idea how he got into Iraq... He got into bed and started to read. PREP 3. If one thing goes into another, the first thing moves from the outside to the inside of the second thing, by breaking or damaging the surface of it. The rider came off and the handlebar went into his neck. PREP 4. If one thing gets into another, the first thing enters the second and becomes part of it. Poisonous smoke had got into the water supply... PREP 5. If you are walking or driving a vehicle and you bump into something or crash into something, you hit it accidentally. A train plowed into the barrier at the end of the platform... PREP 6. When you get into a piece of clothing, you put it on. She could change into a different outfit in two minutes... PREP 7. If someone or something gets into a particular state, they start being in that state. I slid into a depression. PREP: v PREP n, n PREP n 8. If you talk someone into doing something, you persuade them to do it. Gerome tried to talk her into taking an apartment in Paris. PREP: v n PREP n/-ing 9. If something changes into something else, it then has a new form, shape, or nature. ...his attempt to turn a nasty episode into a joke. PREP 10. If something is cut or split into a number of pieces or sections, it is divided so that it becomes several smaller pieces or sections. Sixteen teams are taking part, divided into four groups... PREP 11. An investigation into a subject or event is concerned with that subject or event. The concert will raise funds for research into Aids... PREP: n PREP n 12. If you move or go into a particular career or business, you start working in it. In the early 1990s, it was easy to get into the rental business... PREP 13. If something continues into a period of time, it continues until after that period of time has begun. He had three children, and lived on into his sixties... PREP 14. If you are very interested in something and like it very much, you can say that you are into it. (INFORMAL) I'm into electronics myself. PREP: v-link PREP n