in
Part of speech: prep
adv
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁en
Preposition and verb from Middle English in, from Old English in, from Proto-Germanic *in.
Adverb, noun and adjective from Middle English in, from Old English inn and inne, from Proto-Germanic *innai.
Sense 1/2 "in"/"into" are from the original PIE prefix, with locative/accusative case respectively. Sense 3/4 "qualification"/"means" are from the PIE metaphor of all infinitives coming from locatives.
Inflected forms:
form: i'
pos: prep
tags: alternative
colloquial
poetic
form: i'
pos: adv
tags: alternative
colloquial
poetic
form: ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: i'
pos: noun
tags: alternative
colloquial
poetic
form: more in
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most in
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: i'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
colloquial
poetic
Senses:
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: The dog is in the kennel.
There were three pickles in a jar.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: I like living in the city.
There are lots of trees in the park.
He sat in the chair.
She stood in the spotlight.
GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: We are in the enemy camp.
Her plane is in the air.
Waiter! There's a fly in my soup!
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
Who’s the blonde in the sunhat over there?
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: There wasn't much of interest in her speech.
He hasn't got an original idea in him.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: You are one in a million.
She's in an orchestra.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: My birthday is in the first week of December.
Easter falls in the fourth lunar month.
The country reached a high level of prosperity in his first term.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: Will you be able to finish this in a week?
The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: They said they would call us in a week.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: I've always worked in plastics.
She dabbles in Buddhism.
gloss: Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or abstract limits.
pos: prep
examples: Many English nouns in -is form their plurals in -es, while those in kn- are pronounced just /n/-.
gloss: Into.
pos: prep
examples: Less water gets in your boots this way.
She stood there looking in the window longingly.
The ball was accidentally kicked in Kevin Nolan's face in the opening seconds of the contest – an incident that set the tone for an extremely uncomfortable encounter for the Premier League side.
gloss: By (doing something); indicating action causing an effect or achieving a purpose.
pos: prep
examples: In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
In trying to make amends, she actually made matters worse.
My aim in travelling there was to find my missing friend.
In returning to the vault, I had no very sure purpose in mind; only a vague surmise that this finding of Blackbeard's coffin would somehow lead to the finding of his treasure.
gloss: Indicating an order or arrangement.
pos: prep
examples: My fat rolls around in folds.
The planes flew over in waves.
Arrange the chairs in a circle.
gloss: Denoting a state of the subject.
pos: prep
examples: He stalked away in anger.
John is in a coma.
My fruit trees are in bud.
The company is in profit.
gloss: Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
pos: prep
examples: You've got a friend in me.
He's met his match in her.
gloss: Pertaining to; with regard to.
pos: prep
examples: There has been no change in his condition.
What grade did he get in English?
gloss: Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
pos: prep
examples: Please pay me in cash — preferably in tens and twenties.
The deposit can be in any legal tender, even in gold.
Her generosity was rewarded in the success of its recipients.
[…] tourists sometimes attempt to pay in euros or British pounds.
gloss: Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
pos: prep
examples: Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5" in C minor is among his most popular.
His speech was in French, but was simultaneously translated into eight languages.
When you write in cursive, it's illegible.
Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
gloss: At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Suddenly a strange man walked in.
Would you like that to take away or eat in?
He ran to the edge of the swimming pool and dived in.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
gloss: Towards the speaker or other reference point.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: They flew in from London last night.
For six hours the tide flows in, then for another six hours it flows out.
gloss: So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Bring the water to the boil and drop the vegetables in.
gloss: After the beginning of something.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in.
gloss: Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
pos: adv
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: sing-in, pray-in, hug-in; see also be-in, love-in, sit-in, teach-in.
gloss: A position of power or influence, or a way to get it.
pos: noun
examples: His parents got him an in with the company.
Holleran's and White's diminishing capacities as writers does not affect their publishing ins': the writer the house knows is always better than the writer the house doesn't know.
gloss: One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: This memoir has nothing to do with the question between the ins and the outs; it is intended neither to support nor to assail the administration; it is general in its views upon a general and national subject; […]
gloss: The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.
pos: noun
gloss: Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Is Mr. Smith in?
gloss: Located inside something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Little by little I pushed the snake into the basket, until finally all of it was in.
The bullet is about five centimetres in.
gloss: Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
pos: adj
examples: If the tennis ball bounces on the line then it's in.
gloss: Inserted or fitted into something.
pos: adj
examples: I've discovered why the TV wasn't working – the plug wasn't in!
gloss: Having been collected or received.
pos: adj
examples: The replies to the questionnaires are now all in.
gloss: In fashion; popular.
pos: adj
examples: Skirts are in this year.
Pierce a new hole
If Hell was in you'd give your soul
To the great southern trendkill
gloss: Incoming.
pos: adj
examples: the in train
gloss: Furled or stowed.
pos: adj
gloss: Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
pos: adj
examples: You can't get round the headland when the tide's in.
gloss: With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
pos: adj
examples: in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
gloss: Currently batting.
pos: adj
gloss: Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
pos: adj
examples: He is very in with the Joneses.
“[…] He […] took a rifle out of the batch and shot at me. I was lucky he was such a crummy shot.”
“Why would he do that?”
“I think he's in with them, Doctor.”
“Them? You mean Ned and Cody?”
“All of them. Hickok, the split tail, the whole lot.”
gloss: Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I need to keep in with the neighbours in case I ever need a favour from them.
I think that bird fancies you. You're in there, mate!
I saw this thing on ITV the other week,
Said, that if she played with her hair, she's probably keen
She's playing with her hair, well regularly,
So I reckon I could well be in.
gloss: (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
pos: adj
examples: Blocks of compressed coal keep the fire in for a long time, but they give out very little heat.
“At all events,” said the Doctor, “the fire’s in, and here’s the camp-oven, too. Somebody will be here soon. I will go in and light my pipe.”
Was there any person in your own house at Renmore to keep the fire in while you were here?.
Normally when they camped in the wild they took turns to sit up and keep the fire in while the others slept, […].
He turned and started making up the range to keep the fire in overnight, and heard the front door click and Grant’s motor fire up. Sleep. He needed to sleep.
gloss: Having used, consumed , or invested a certain amount.
pos: adj
examples: I'm three drinks in right now.
I was 500 dollars in when the stock crashed.
Antonyms: out
Related words: in a hurry
in a jiffy
in haste
in love
in situ
in tatters
in the long term
in the short term
in turn
ins and outs
Derived words: 6in4
add-in
bail in
ben
built-in
calcin
caytaxin
come in
drop-in
end in
grid-in
herein
inable
inband
in between
inbetwixt
inblown
inborne
inbound
inbox
inbreath
inburnt
inburst
inclearing
incross
indeed
indegree
indrift
indriven
infill
in-fill
in-flight
in-footed
inframe
in funds
ingate
ingoer
ingoing
inkneed
inlane
inlier
inlink
inly
inmeats
inmost
innage
innermost
inness
in on
in one's eyes
inorder
inpatient
inplane
inroad
inrun
inservice
inshave
inshoot
inside
insole
in someone's eyes
insomuch
insooth
insourcing
inspan
in-state
instead
instead of
instealing
in steam
instore
instroke
insucking
inswinging
inswung
intext
into
intoed
intown
in-town
inwards
inwash
inwicking
inworld
live-in
mixin
opt-in
piss in the popcorn
plugin
puss in a bag
therein
tuck-in
wherein
whipper-in
within
Translations:
lang: Burmese
word: လို
roman: lui
lang: Catalan
word: en
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 用
roman: yòng
lang: Danish
word: på
lang: Danish
word: med
lang: Dutch
word: in
lang: Finnish
word: -ksi
lang: Finnish
word: -lla
lang: Finnish
word: -llä
lang: French
word: en
lang: German
word: auf
lang: Hindi
word: में
roman: mẽ
lang: Hungarian
word: -ban
lang: Hungarian
word: -ben
lang: Hungarian
word: -ul
lang: Hungarian
word: -ül
lang: Hungarian
word: -val
lang: Hungarian
word: -vel
lang: Irish
word: as
lang: Italian
word: in
lang: Japanese
word: ...で
roman: ...de
lang: Korean
word: ...로
roman: ...ro
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: bi
lang: Norman
word: en
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: på
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: på
lang: Old English
word: on
lang: Polish
word: po
lang: Polish
word: w
lang: Portuguese
word: em
lang: Romanian
word: în
lang: Russian
word: по-
roman: po-
lang: Spanish
word: en
lang: Swedish
word: på
lang: Swedish
word: i
lang: Vietnamese
word: bằng
lang: Walloon
word: e
lang: Welsh
word: yn
lang: Catalan
word: endins
lang: Catalan
word: endintre
lang: Chechen
word: чу
roman: ču
lang: Czech
word: dovnitř
lang: Danish
word: ind
lang: Dutch
word: binnen
lang: Finnish
word: sisään
lang: French
word: dedans
lang: French
word: à l'intérieur
lang: German
word: herein
lang: German
word: hinein
lang: Hungarian
word: be
lang: Irish
word: isteach
lang: Italian
word: dentro
lang: Korean
word: 안으로
roman: aneuro
lang: Norwegian
word: inn
lang: Old English
word: inn
lang: Persian
word: تو
roman: tô
lang: Persian
word: درون
roman: darôn
lang: Portuguese
word: para dentro
lang: Scots
word: in
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: a-steach
lang: Slovak
word: dnu
lang: Spanish
word: hacia adentro
lang: Swedish
word: in