Pronunciation
- Used to indicate location, inclusion, or position within spatial, temporal or other limits.
- Contained by.
- The dog is in the kennel. pickles in a jar
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- living in the city; a tree in the park
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- We are in the enemy camp. Her plane is in the air.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- One in a million. She's in band and orchestra.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
- What grade did he get in English?
- Military letters should be formal in tone, but not stilted.
- During (a period of time).
- 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.
- Within a certain elapsed time; by the end of.
- Are you able to finish this in three hours? The massacre resulted in over 1000 deaths in three hours.
- At the end of a period of time.
- They said they would call us in a week.
- (grammar, phonetics) Characterized by.
- English nouns in -ce form their plurals in -s.
- Contained by.
- Into.
- Less water gets in your boots this way.
- Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- 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.
- In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- My fat rolls around in folds.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- He stalked away in anger. John is in a coma.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- You've got a friend in me. He's met his match in her.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- I glanced over at the pretty girl in the red dress.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Used to indicate means, medium, format, genre, or instrumentality.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
- 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.
- 2014, Carla Bethmann, Clean, Friendly, Profitable?: Tourism, page 114:
- […] tourists sometimes attempt to pay in euros or British pounds.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- 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.
- (of something offered or given in an exchange) In the form of, in the denomination of.
in (ins, present participle inning; past and past participle inned)
- (obsolete, transitive) To enclose.
- (obsolete, transitive) To take in; to harvest.
- c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:
- He that ears my land spares my team and gives me leave to in the crop.
in (not comparable)
- (not comparable) Located indoors, especially at home or the office, or inside something.
- Is Mr. Smith in?
- Moving to the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- Suddenly a strange man walked in.
- 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175 ↗:
- 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.
- (sports) Still eligible to play, e.g. able to bat in cricket and baseball.
- He went for the wild toss but wasn't able to stay in.
- (UK) Abbreviation of in aid of.
- What's that in?
- After the beginning of something.
- French: à l'intérieur
- Italian: dentro
- Portuguese: dentro
- Spanish: dentro, adentro
- Italian: dentro
in (plural ins)
- A position of power or a way to get it.
- His parents got him an in with the company.
- (mostly, in the plural) One who, or that which, is in; especially, one who is in office.
- Antonyms: out
- 1827, Benjamin Chew, A Sketch of the Politics, Relations, and Statistics, of the Western World (page 192)
- 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; […]
- (sport) The state of a batter/batsman who is currently batting; see innings.
- A re-entrant angle; a nook or corner.
in
- In fashion; popular.
- Skirts are in this year.
- Incoming.
- the in train
- (nautical, of the sails of a vessel) Furled or stowed.
- (legal) With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin.
- in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband
- (cricket) Currently batting.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- French: à la mode, in (colloquial)
- German: in
- Italian: in
- Portuguese: em alta, na moda, in
- Spanish: de moda
- French: en approche
- Italian: in arrivo
in (plural ins)
- Abbreviation of inch#English|inch; inches#English|inches.
IN
Proper noun
- Abbreviation of Indiana#English|Indiana, a state of the United States of America.
in (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) Abbreviation of integrase#English|integrase.
- internegative; a type of film stock, most commonly used regarding 35mm motion picture negative
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