INTO

  1. (initialism) .  The Irish national teacher's organisation.
  2. Preposition.  Going inside (of).
  3. Preposition.  Going to a geographic region.
  4. Preposition.  Against, especially with force or violence.
  5. Preposition.  Producing, becoming.
  6. Preposition.  Of (when describing duration).
  7. Preposition.  (colloquial) Intensely interested in or attracted to.
  8. Preposition.  (mathematics) Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
  9. Preposition.  (British, archaic) The operation of multiplication.(R:OED Online) .
  10. Preposition.  (mathematics) The operation of division, with the denominator expressed first.
  11. Preposition.  Investigation of a subject.

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