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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Into \In"to\, prep. [In + to.]
     To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of
     applications.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or
        animation into a composition.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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; she burst into tears; children
        are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable
        to be seduced into error and folly.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Compare In.
           [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  
        (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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  into
     Αγγλικά prep.
     1 μέσα σε
     2 στον, στην, στο, στους, στις, στα, σε, εις