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into, prep. and a.|ˈɪntʊ|
Also 1 in tó, 2–3 (Orm.) innto, 2–6 in to.
[Orig. the two words, in adv., to prep., as in the similar collocations out to, up to, down to, away to, off to, on to, in from, out from, away from, out of, etc., in which the adv. expresses the general direction of motion, and the prep. specifies or has reference to a particular point or place. In the case of in to, the two words may refer to the same space, as in ‘he went in to the house’, or the to may refer to something which is in the space entered, as in ‘he went in to the patient’; it is from the former of these that the combined into has arisen; in the latter the words are still written separate. But in early MSS. and editions this is often neglected; not only are the words often written separate when the sense is combined, but they are sometimes written in one, when the sense is the unconnected in to (a person, etc.). In in to, the n is long; in into the n is shortened by its rapid passage into the allied mute, t.]
General Sense:—The preposition expressing motion from without to a point within limits of space, time, condition, circumstance, etc.; the motion which results in the position expressed by in, or which is directed towards that position.
In the Teutonic languages, as in Latin, this was originally expressed by the prep. in followed by the accusative or case of direction, and so distinguished from the simple notion of position expressed by in with the locative (or dative); but, when the case-endings were becoming weakened or lost in OE., so that the language was losing the power of making the distinction expressed in Latin by in aquā, in aquam, the periphrasis in tó, intó, was substituted for the latter. The other Teutonic langs., having retained the inflexions, esp. in the article and demonstrative words, have not required a parallel formation: cf. Ger. in dem (im) wasser, in das (ins) wasser. In OE. intó was usually, like the simple tó, construed with the dative; but also, not infrequently, with the accusative, like the simple in (on) which it superseded, or the L. in which it rendered: see sense 1.
As the prep. in, partly from its OE. blending with on (see in prep. 2), partly from its identification with L. in, had various uses now usually expressed by other prepositions, so into was formerly used in senses now properly expressed by unto, upon, towards, against, etc.: see II.
The earlier use of in to express motion died out gradually, so that there long remained (and still remain) phrases and constructions in which in has the sense of into (see in prep. 31); conversely, in some dialects, and esp. in Central and North-eastern Scotch, into was extended to express position, and thus took the sense of in (cf. F. en, dans in, into): see III.
A. prep.
I. Of motion or direction: ordinary uses.
1. a. Expressing motion to a position within a space or thing: To a point within the limits of; to the interior of; so as to enter. In reference to a space or thing having material extension. Regularly after verbs of going, coming, bringing, putting, sending, and the like.
a1000O.E. Chron. (Parker MS.) an. 876 Her hiene bestæl se here into Werham. Ibid. an. 877 Her cuom se here into Escan ceastre from Werham. c1000ælfric Gen. vii. 7 Noe eode into þam arce. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. iv. 24 Ða ferde hys hlisa into ealle Syriam. Ibid. Mark xvi. 15 Farað into ealne middan-eard. a1100O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1016 Þa ferdon hi in to Stæfford scire & into Scrobbes byriᵹ & to Leᵹeceastre. Ibid. an. 1083 Sume urnon in to cyrcean..& hi ferdon æfter heom into þam mynstre. 11..Ibid. an. 1100 Se cyng..þone biscop..into þam ture on Lundene let ᵹebringon. c1175Lamb. Hom. 85 Þe corne þe me scal don in to þe gernere þet is in to heuene. c1200Ormin 8706 Helyas forrþrihht anan Þær stah innto þatt karrte. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2700 He fley in to walis. a1300Cursor M. 7552 (Gött.) Wid þis he went in to þe place. c1340Ibid. 13459 (Trin.) Ihesus clomb vp into a hille [v.rr. vn till, intill, vn to a fell(e]. 1382Wyclif Matt. xxviii. 7 Lo he schal go bifore ȝou in to Galilee. c1450Merlin 17 They entred in to a chamber. 1535Coverdale Gen. vi. 18 Thou shalt go in to the Arcke. 1652J. Wright tr. Camus' Nature's Paradox 319 Beeing come into the presence of him, whom hee had so dearely loved. 1658W. Sanderson Graphice 81 Strike into the brick or stone-wall, stumps of head-nails. 1759Chron. in Ann. Reg. 63/1 No rascally piccaroon, or pirate, could have fired worse stuff into us. 1821Keats Isabella viii, I may speak my grief into thine ear. 1839Thirlwall Greece l. VI. 215 He made an expedition into Samaria, to punish the Samaritans. 1855Tennyson Maud i. xxii. 1 Come into the garden, Maud.
b. Also with verbs in which the idea of motion is not explicitly expressed.
971Blickl. Hom. 79 Hi..wið feo sealdon [þæt folc] wide into leodscipas. c1205Lay. 29631 Þu scalt..in to hefneriche. c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 33 For to here [= hire] werkmen in⁓to his winyarde. a1500Chester Pl. x. 274 Upon myne asse shalt thou now sit, into Egipt till we hytt. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 34 Preamble, The seid Piers Werbek..aryved into this Land. 1622Laud Wks. (1853) III. 141, I wrote to my Lord of Buckingham into Spain. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. 327 In 749, he was employed into Pannonia, against the rebels. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 103 That the girders be strong, and very well Dove-tayld, one into another. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 206 A Pin..to fit hard and stiff into the round Hole. 1728Scheuchzer in Phil. Trans. XXXV. 588 It..looses itself jointly with that River into the Adriatick Gulf. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 779 He..bit into it with the furious eagerness of a wolf. 1895Sir A. Kekewich in Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 663/1 A sensible limitation which can easily be read into deed or will.
c. With the verb understood by ellipsis, or expressed in a verbal n. or other word.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon ix. 227 The one waye was towarde Fraunce, the other in to Spayne, the other in to Galyce, and the fourth in to Gascoyn. 1610Chester's Tri. Particulars (Chetham Soc.) 1 [He] stood upon his hands with his feet into the Ayre. 1670Baxter Cure Ch. Div. 356 What influence it may have into our conclusions. a1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iv. 157 Which may be the material constituents or ingredients into Artificial Structures. 1691Ray Acc. Err. in Collect. Words 160 That D is an ingredient into it Children do easily discern. 1852Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 195 Darwin is into his new house. 1887Pall Mall G. 28 Dec. 2/1 Establishing special tariffs for the sole benefit of German exports into Russia. 1892R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, East & West 13 At dusk he harries the Abazai—at dawn he is into Bonair.
2. Pregnant uses.
a. = Into the possession of.
a1100O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 675 Nu ᵹife ic Sce Peter to dæi in to his minstre..þas landes. Ibid. an. 852 To þæt forewearde þæt æfter his dæi scolde þæt land in to þe minstre. 1872E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 195 note, In the following year [998] Leofwine, Wulfstan's son, willed some lands ‘into Westminster’. 1883Law Times Rep. L. 192/2 There were alternative modes of getting the legal estate into the same person.
b. The name of the thing or place after into often includes or means its action or function. Cf. in prep. 1 b, 7.
1382Wyclif Jas. v. 4 The cry of hem entride in to the erys of the Lord of hoostis. 1535Coverdale Gen. xiv. 20 God..hath delyuered thine enemies in to thy handes. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 216 Reason might beate thus muche into our heades. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 22 Y'are falne into a Princely hand. 1625Laud Wks. (1847) I. 116 When he first came into the throne. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 20 Not fit to put into the place of government. 1674tr. Martiniere's Voy. N. Countries 90 Our Elks being harnessed, and put into the Sledges. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 540 An Earl of Devonshire could not engage to bring ten men into the field.
c. Used with collectives, it frequently expresses entrance or admission to membership or participation. Cf. in prep. 3, 7.
a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 231 b, I will neither enter into your league, nor take truce with the Frenche kyng. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 619 They would admit none into their Societie, but such as were learned. 1643Marshall Let. Vind. Ministry 27 Proclamations..that no Papists should be entertained into His Majesties Army. 1709Steele Tatler No. 15 ⁋2 It was one of the most wealthy Families in Great Britain into which I was born. a1715Burnet Own Time (1823) I. 332 Many..ingenious men went into the society for natural philosophy. 1840Macaulay Ess., Ranke (1887) 584 Marrying his son into one of the great continental houses. 1849― Hist. Eng. i. I. 39 A class into which his own children must descend. 1878Morley Condorcet 47 Condorcet was elected into the Academy.
3. In reference to non-physical realms, regions of thought, departments or faculties of the mind, etc., treated as having extension or content. Cf. in prep. 8.
1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 777 These things..beaing beaten into the Dukes minde. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 757 Richarde..began..to chalenge the Crowne, puttyng his clayme into the Parliament. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 258 To pierce..into the secrete counsels of the king of Spaine. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 73, I will therefore recall into your memories so much of my former meditations. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 275 We shall have to take Damon into our counsels. 1887L. Carroll Game of Logic iv. 93 That lets me into a little fact about you!
4. a. In reference to a state or condition.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxv. 21 Ga into þines hlafordes blisse. c1175Lamb. Hom. 67 Ne led us noht in to costnunga. c1230Hali Meid. 5 Nis ha witerliche akast & in to þeowdom idrahen. 1340Ayenb. 117 We ziggeþ ‘Lyene uader, ne led ous naȝt in-to uondinge, þet is ne þole naȝt þet we go in-to consentinge’. c1400Mandeville xi. (1839) 89 He fell in to seknesse. 1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 756 Many of them..growen into his favor. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 16 When men knowe not, thei..fall into errour. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 19 He put those lies into print vnlawfully. 1644Laud Wks. (1854) IV. 152, I grew into want. 1671Lady M. Bertie in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 23 Wee are all goeing into mourning for the Dutchesse of York. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 391/1 This put Bluster into such a Passion. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. xii, An ambrosial joy as of over-weariness falling into sleep. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 117 The Scottish treasury was put into commission. 1885S. Cox Expos. Ser. i. iii. 37 He was before the first Adam, and called him into being. 1895Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 21/2 [He] got into difficulties and he became bankrupt in 1880.
b. The state or condition may be expressed by a concrete n. (Akin to 2 b.)
1716[see burst v. 6 c]. 1766Goldsm. Vic. W. xxv, They now seemed all repentance and, melting into tears, came [etc.]. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T., Angelina iv, Angelina burst into tears. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. xiii, Folk who come unexpectedly into a little property.
5. In reference to occupation or action.
c1475Rauf Coilȝear 90 Into sic talk fell thay. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 228 Fell into an exceeding great laughter. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 65 The Prince afterwards falling into discourse of the generall affaires. 1711Steele Spect. No. 49 ⁋2 What Measures the Allies must enter into. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 365 ⁋11 Since I am got into Quotations, I shall conclude this Head with Virgil's Advice to young People. 1843Blackw. Mag. LIV. 806 The crowd burst into yells of applause. 1885Manch. Exam. 26 June 5/3 To coax or cajole the Pope into making an appointment. 1887A. Birrell Obiter Dicta Ser. ii. 174 Burke flung himself into farming.
6. a. Introducing the substance or form into which anything turns or grows, or is changed, moulded, fashioned, or made.
c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 29 [The water] haste⁓liche was i-went into wyne. c1350Will. Palerne 4105 Sche chaunged my sone In to a wilde werwolf. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 165 Sche..kutte þe hyde into a þong þat was ful long and ful smal. c1400Mandeville Prol. (1839) 5, I haue put this boke out of latyn into frensch, and translated it aȝen out of Frensch into englyssch. Ibid. (Roxb.) v. 15 Þe water..congelez in to gude salt. 1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 801 The King and the Queene chaunged their robes into cloth of Golde. 1568Grafton Chron. I. 34 That one vowell may be chaunged in a word, and specially, A into O, which in some mannes mouth soundeth oftentymes lyke. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 115 Fresh curds newly pressed, and made into little cheeses. 1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 72 The Indians..spin it into fine thred. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 26 Valleys exalted into Mountaines, and great Hills abased into Valleys. 1792Hist. in Ann. Reg. 10/2 Anarchy, according to the nature of extremes, ran into despotism. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 74 The twilight thickened into night. 1865Hook Lives Abps. IV. xiii. 205 They..had formed themselves into a school. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 214 If we knew how to convert stones into gold. Mod. The stalks and leaves are collected into heaps and burned.
b. Introducing the condition or result brought about by some action.
c1540Pilgr. T. 283 in Thynne's Animadv. (1865) App. i. 85 To teache men in-to better lyf. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. vi. i. (1651) 547 Till he be fully wained from anger..and habituated into another course. 1678Butler Hud., Lady's Answer 40 The motives which t' induce, Or fright us into love, you use. 1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 697 All dies into new life. 1780Cowper Table-talk 546 Neglected talents rust into decay. 1813Byron Br. Abydos i. xi, I will kiss thee into rest. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 538 The Covenanters had been persecuted into insurrection. 1890L Stephen in Dict. Nat. Biog. XXI. 251/1 Birched into Latin grammar by his master.
7. Introducing the parts produced by division, breaking, folding, and the like.
1382Wyclif 1 Sam. xv. 33 Samuel hewide hym into gobbetis before the Lord. 1390Gower Conf. III. 244 His mantel..He kut it into pieces twelve. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 15 The whole is divided into his partes, as..The bodie is divided into the hedde, beallie, handes and feete. 1676tr. Guillatiere's Voy. Athens 116 The Shore..bends into three several bows, which do make so many Harbours. 1798W. Yonge in Beddoes' Contrib. Phys. & Med. Knowl. (1799) 300 A cambric handkerchief, folded into six or eight doubles. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 192 note, The antique was broken into several pieces. 1886Sir N. Lindley in Law Rep. 32 Ch. Div. 28 The authorities..are divisible into two classes. 1892Law Times XCIII. 417/1 The area of the City..is partitioned into twenty-eight wards.
8. Used technically with the vb. multiply, q.v.
e.g. Two numbers multiplied into each other.
9. As an addition or accession to: as into the bargain, into the boot (cf. bargain 7, boot n.1 1). [Perh. = ‘in, to the bargain’, ‘in, to boot’: cf. in adv. 4.]
1646Suckling's Poems (ed. 2) Pref. 2 A man may buy the reputation of some Authours into the price of their Volume. 1659Willsford Scales Comm., Archit. 14 The spar-feet and Eaves-board, are in common building, measured into the whole Roof. 1775Sheridan Rivals ii. ii, I'll make her the best husband in the world, and Lady O' Trigger into the bargain. 1885Anstey Tinted Venus x. 121 A son-in-law with whom she had nothing in common, and who was a hairdresser into the bargain.
10. Expressing direction without actual motion of the agent after such verbs as turn, look, search.
1605Shakes. Macb. i. iii. 58 If you can looke into the Seedes of Time. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 216 The Ile..gives a large prospect into the Ocean. 1676tr. Guillatiere's Voy. Athens 311 That you must..search deeply into the merits of the Cause. 1783Watson Philip III (1839) 203 They did not take time to inquire into their number. 1823J. F. Cooper Pioneers xxxvii, He examined into every fissure in the crags. 1891Law Times XCII. 105/1 [They] inquire minutely into the evidence.
11. Introducing a period of time to the midst of which anything advances or continues.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, v. iii. 234 How farre into the Morning is it Lords? 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. lii, We had now got into the month of March. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 47 This obligation they discharged far down into Protestant and peaceful times. 1885Manch. Exam. 10 Sept. 5/5 The drizzling rain..continued far into the night. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. viii. 249 Far on into life [we] were glad when any chance brought us together again. 1890Fenn Double Knot III. xi. 154 It was well into the next season before they were back.
II. Obsolete senses, related to ME. uses of in, or rendering L. in with accus.
†12. Unto, even unto, even to (a place or point); to the very... Obs.
c1205Lay. 4298 Belin ȝef his leue broþer anne dal of his londe..to halden norð in to þare sæ. Ibid. 14099 Heo hatieð þe swiðe in to þan bare dæðe. 13..K. Alis. 777 Bulsifal neied so loude, That hit schrillith into the cloude. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxxxvii. [cxxxiii.] 382 In the chapell he was vnarmed of all his peces into his doublet. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 63 [They] came wel appareled to Westmynster, and sodeynly stryped them into their shertes.
†13. Towards, in the direction of. Obs. (Cf. 10.)
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 345/11 Abouten eiȝte hondret mile Engelond long is Fram þe South into þe North. a1300Cursor M. 3384 (Gött.) Þai held..Þe landes þat lay in to þe est. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 61 Youre hertis ye lyft up into the est, And al your body and knees bowe a-downe. 1568Grafton Chron. I. 56 The first of these foure wayes was named Fosse, the which stretcheth out of the South, into the North. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 38 A streight line drawn..from the North-East into the South.
†14. Unto, until, on to, up to (a time or date).
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1420 Fro þat day in to þys myn herte haþ he yraft. c1380Wyclif Last Age Chirche p. xxvi, Fro þe by-gynnynge of ebrew lettris in to Crist..weren two and twenty hundriddis of yeeris. c1449Pecock Repr. 86 Into tyme that thei schulden falle into fiȝting. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xx. 86 Fro þe houre of my birþe into the daie of my goynge oute of þis worlde. 1534More on Passion Wks. 1314/1 Hee loued theym in to the ende.
†15. To the number of, as many as. Obs.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xviii. 191 He hath also in to a xiiij mil Olifauntz or mo. 1441Plumpton Corr. (Camden) p. lvi, Sir William Plompton with other officers came to Burghbrig..& with him into xxiiij persons.
†16. Unto, to (a thing or person). Obs.
1382Wyclif Ps. cxxxiii[i]. 2 Heueth vp ȝoure hondis in to holi thingis. c1440Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 2 Ȝoure soule, in þis pytt of corrupte watyr, nedyth to cry in-to god. c1449Pecock Repr. 181 Sche dide a good werk into him. Ibid. ii. xx. 267 If..the freend come into him personali. 1609Bible (Douay) Jer. xliii. 11 He shal strike the Land of ægypt: those that into death, into death..and those that into the sword, into the sword. 1611Shakes. Cymb. i. vi. 167 That he enchants Societies into him.
†17. Unto (a purpose or result); in order to, with a view to. Obs.
1382Wyclif Matt. xxvi. 28 My blood..whiche shal be shed out for many in to remissioun of synnys. c1400Apol. Loll. 4 He..leuiþ to wirke, & doþ contrarily directly, & in to þe harme of his maistir. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. vii. 181 Sche did it into the mynde of him and..into the biriyng of him. 1502Bury Wills (Camden) 95 Into witnesse herof..I haue put my seale.
†18. In order to be; for; as: after choose, elect, take, etc. Obs.
1382Wyclif Ps. cxxxi[i]. 13 He ches it in to dwelling to hym. c1400Apol. Loll. 4 If ani chosun of God Himselue & of þe puple, in to pope or prelate, & ordend in to vicar of Crist [etc.]. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 162 Agage the kynge of amalech into his prysoner he toke.
†19. Upon on: of motion or direction. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Egyptiane 703 In-to þe floure þan done fel I. c1380Antecrist in Todd Three Treat. Wyclif (1851) 116 Hise yȝen shule loke in to pore men. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 351 Certes synne of siche children turneþ in to heed of þer fadir. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvii. 97 That ȝe bileeue in to him which he sende.
†20. To, among (a number). Obs. Cf. 7.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. ii. i. (1895) 119 The worke beyng diuyded into so great a numbre of workemen.
†21. Defining the particular part of anything in which it is penetrated, pierced, etc. Cf. in prep. 5.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxlii. 356 Kyng Henry..strake kyng Dampeter into the body. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 186 b, Putting of his gorget, sodainly wt an arrowe [he] was stricken into the throte. 1641J. Jackson True Evang. T. iii. 201 John James..with a rusty dagger..did stab into the breast Peter Heywood. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. ii, I..fired again, and shot him [a lion] into the head. 1788New Lond. Mag. 8 He was shot into the shoulder.
III. 22. Of position: = in. (After 1400 characteristically Sc.)
971Blickl. Hom. 205 Michael..himsylfa þæt tacn [MS. tanc] þæs siᵹes ᵹesette & ᵹecyðde into þy swiðan slæpe. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 10540 Worre was in to al þis lond. c1330Assump. Virg. 772 (B.M.MS.) Tho wist þe apostles, I-wis, The bodi was in to paradis. 1375Barbour Bruce i. 602 The Kyng sat into parleament. c1380Sir Ferumb. 4948 He suffreþ my worschip spille in tal þys countre wyde. a1400Octouian 60 In Parys was y-feld ech a sale Into all the toun. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. (Mait. Cl.) 56 The same season into ane soft morning. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 315 Mercy in to womanheid is a mekle vertu. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 1216 Bot, in to rest, schorte tyme indurit his ryng. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 26 Ane man that behaldis his bodaly face into ane myrrour. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 73 Deuouring woulves into sheip skynnes. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 25 Her nyne-voced mouth resembled into sound The daunce harmonious making heauen resound. 1606G. W[oodcocke] tr. Hist. Ivstine 81 a, He came to Siracuse, into which Citty he was entertained as amongst other inhabyters. 1626Jas. Haig in J. Russell Haigs vii. (1881) 178 Nothing..whereof into your letter you did assure me she had written. 1658Kirk Sess. Rec. in Campbell Balmerino (1899) 409 The hous..free and sufficient for dwelling into. a1776‘Get up and bar the door’ (Herd's Coll.) ‘What ails ye at the puddin' bree, That boils into the pan?’ Mod. north-east Sc. ‘He's bidin' into a new hoose.’
23. Interested or involved in; knowledgeable about. colloq.
1969Rolling Stone 28 Jan. 19/1, I tend to like the stuff the rock groups are doing because they're creative and original, and that's something I'm very much into. 1969Down Beat 20 Mar. 17/1 She is a Libra, for those of you who are into that. 1969It 4–17 July 15/3 He was basically into being a hustler, which he was very, very good at. 1971Ink 12 June 19/1 This should have been the high⁓light of the evening, but the audience just wasn't into it. 1971New Yorker 11 Sept. 48 First I was into Zen, then I was into peace, then I was into love, then I was into freedom, then I was into religion. Now I'm into money. 1973Listener 15 Feb. 209/1 Margaret is ‘into’ astrology, and consults the I-Ching each morning.
B. adj. Math. Used to designate a mapping (of one set ‘into’ another (into prep. 6 a)) that is not necessarily ‘onto’.
1949S. Lefschetz Introd. Topology 215 (Index), Into transformation. 1958K. S. Miller Elem. Mod. Abstr. Algebra i. 21 Since the mapping is into, there may exist elements in S which have no preimage in S. 1968E. T. Copson Metric Spaces vii. 85 Every ‘onto’ mapping is ‘into’ but not all ‘into’ mappings are ‘onto’.
Add:[A.] [1.] d. Used with verbs denoting impact or pressure to signify forceful contact or collision: (up) against.
1849T. T. Johnson Sights in Gold Region xxii. 211 The afternoon of our ‘first day out’, was signalized by running smash into a big sycamore tree. 1895Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 623/1 To try and prevent the train from running into the children. 1925V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 100 The child ran full tilt into her, fell flat, and burst out crying. 1951G. Greene End of Affair ii. v. 82, I thought I was still on my feet and I was puzzled by the darkness: somebody seemed to be pressing a cold fist into my cheek and my mouth was salty with blood. 1971Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 2/6 A car crashed into a bus stop queue in Aigburth Road, Liverpool, yesterday. 1990Los Angeles May 102/1 The jogglers smashed into two kids on beach bikes who collided with two skaters going the other way.
[8.] For def. read: Math. †a. Used to indicate multiplication, as to multiply x into y (by considering the multiplicand replicated once for each unit of the multiplier). Obs.
c1430Art of Nombryng (Early Eng. Text Soc.) (1922) 46 Nombre superficial is þat comethe of ledynge [= multiplying] of oo nombre into a-nother. 1542R. Recorde Ground of Arts i. f. L viii, I multiply the first numbre 3 into y⊇ seconde 40000, and it yeldeth 120000. 1660I. Barrow tr. Euclid i. Prop. xxxv. 29 Draw 3 into 4, there will be produced 12. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Plain Number, 20 is a plain number, produced by Multiplication of 5 into 4. 1839De Quincey Wordsworth in Tait's Mag. Jan. 10/1 An elderly man, who confessed to having passed the grand climacterical year (9 multiplied into 7) of 63. 1890[see involutant n.].
b. Used to indicate division (of the divisor into the dividend); also ellipt. for ‘divided into’.
c1869Taylor & Dubourg New Men & Old Acres i. 12 How do you divide one million one hundred and eighty one thousand six hundred pounds five shillings and two pence, by six shillings and eight pence? Sixes into five you can't, you know, and eights into two, I'll be hanged if you can. 1967A. Newman (title) Three into two won't go. 1989Borowski & Borwein Dict. Math. 306 Into,..divided into, in expressions such as ‘5 into 2 won't go’.
▸ colloq. (orig. U.S.). Romantically or sexually interested in (a person).
1976R. Nix et al. in ‘Atlanta Rhythm Section’ Rock & Roll Alternative (album) (title of song) So into you. 1991S. Schepps Encino Man (film script) 9 Mat is the dopest guy in school and he's into you. Take advantage of it while you can. 1998J. M. Townsend What Women want—What Men Want ii. 55, I had sex with girls I didn't like because it was convenient. They were really into me, and it made me feel really guilty. 2004G. Behrendt & L. Tuccillo He's just not that into You 1 Greg listened intently to the story..and then said to the woman in question, ‘Listen, it sounds like he's just not that into you.’ |