Definition of Into

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Definition of Into

Into

To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

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.

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.

Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.

Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.

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.

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Into Quotations

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
Thomas Jefferson

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson

Into Translations

into in Afrikaans is op, per, in, binne
into in Dutch is in, te, per, binnen
into in French is dans
into in German is hinein, in [... hinein], in, in
into in Hungarian is bele, -be, -ba
into in Italian is negli
into in Latin is in
into in Norwegian is inn i, til
into in Portuguese is em
into in Spanish is en, por
into in Swedish is in, till

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