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Definition of intoPreposition 1. Going inside (of). Mary danced into the house. 2. Going to a geographic region. We left the house and walked into the street; the plane flew into the open air 3. Against, especially with force or violence. The car crashed into the tree; I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall 4. Producing, becoming. I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale. Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf! 5. After the start of. 6. Intensely interested in or attracted to. She's really into Shakespeare right now; I'm so into you! 7. Taking distinct arguments to distinct values. The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself. 8. Expressing the operation of multiplication. Five into three is fifteen. 9. Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes". Three into two won't go. 24 goes into 48 how many times? 10. Investigating the subject (of). Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees.
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