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into is a preposition:

  1. Going inside (of)
    "Mary danced into the house."
  2. Going to a geographic region.
    "We left the house and walked into the street."
  3. Against, especially with force or violence.
    "The car crashed into the tree."
  4. Producing, becoming
    "I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale."
  5. Intensely interested in or attracted to.
    "I'm really into Shakespeare right now."
  6. Taking distinct arguments to distinct values.
    "The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself."
  7. The operation of division, with the denominator expressed first.
    "Three into two won't go."
  8. Investigation of a subject.
    "Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees"

Prepositions are used to show the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word. Examples of prepositions are: in, during, beside, after, for. In the sentence "Sows suffer in factory farms." The preposition "in" tells us the position of the sow relative to the factory farm. Learn more →

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What type of word is into?

As detailed above, 'into' is a preposition. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Preposition usage: Mary danced into the house.
  2. Preposition usage: We left the house and walked into the street.
  3. Preposition usage: The plane flew into the open air.
  4. Preposition usage: The car crashed into the tree.
  5. Preposition usage: I wasn't careful, and walked into a wall.
  6. Preposition usage: I carved the piece of driftwood into a sculpture of a whale.
  7. Preposition usage: Right before our eyes, Jake turned into a wolf!
  8. Preposition usage: I'm really into Shakespeare right now.
  9. Preposition usage: I'm so into you!
  10. Preposition usage: The exponential function maps the set of real numbers into itself.
  11. Preposition usage: Three into two won't go.
  12. Preposition usage: Call for research into pesticides blamed for vanishing bees

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of into are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of into, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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