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  1. preposition Within the limits, bounds, or area of: was hit in the face; born in the spring; a chair in the garden.
  2. preposition From the outside to a point within; into: threw the letter in the wastebasket.
  3. preposition To or at a situation or condition of: was split in two; in debt; a woman in love.
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  • But I discovered in the French word raison d'être. —  John Maeda on his journey in design
  • In the Torku view, there are an infinitude of possible universes, and a big factor in determining which one you'll live in is what you hope for and believe in -- in other words, they think people can influence the wave-function collapse even without an Ensemble mod. —  F ;SF - vol 088 issue 05 - May 1995
  • The adjective which has attached itself to his name in English in an inaccurate rendering of le temeraire which belongs to him in French. —  Charles the Bold
  • He complains of the substitution of the blind, unmeaning word 'Church'—and that even in the Catechism for the young—for the Greek word in the New Testament 'Ecclesia,' as the name of the community or assembly of Christian people. —  Life of Luther
  • Ditch the memories of high school biology class, and take a second look at the British Council's Beautiful Science initiative FameLab, in which young scientists from around Bulgaria will face off - in English - in presenting their favourite scientific topics. —  SofiaEcho RSS feed
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  1. Middle English, from Old English; see en in Indo-European roots.

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  1. With the simple form in became merged in later Middle English and early modern English several deriv. forms, inne, etc. I. prep. (a) from Middle English in, yn, from Anglo-Saxon in = OFries. D. Middle Low German Low German Old High German Middle High German G. in = Icelandic ī = Swedish Danish i = Gothic (Moesogothic) in = Old Irish in = Welsh yn = Latin in = Greek ἐν, ἐνί, dial. ἰν, in; related to Greek ἀνά = Gothic (Moesogothic) ana = Old High German ana, Middle High German ane, an, German an = Anglo-Saxon an, on, English on: see on, and cf. in, an-, ana-, in-, in-, etc. (b) from Middle English inne, ine, earlier innen, from Anglo-Saxon innan, in, within, = Old Saxon innan = OFries. inna = Old High German innana, innan, innena, Middle High German G. innen = Icelandic innan = Danish inden, inde = Swedish innan, inne = Gothic (Moesogothic) innana, from within, within. (c) from Middle English inne, from Anglo-Saxon inne = Old Saxon inne = OFries. inne = Old High German inna, inni, inne, Middle High German G. inne, within, etc. II. adv. (a) from Middle English in, from Anglo-Saxon in = Old Saxon OFries. in = Old High German Middle High German in, also, with lengthened vowel, Old High German Middle High German īn, German ein = Icelandic inn = Swedish in = Danish ind = Gothic (Moesogothic) inn, adverb, in. (b) from Middle English inne, innen, from Anglo-Saxon innan, etc. (c) from Middle English inne, from Anglo-Saxon inne = Gothic (Moesogothic) inna, etc.: in forms similar to those of the preposition See I. With these are associated numerous other deriv. forms. In early use (Anglo-Saxon and early Middle English) the preposition in was often interchangeable with the related on, which was indeed generally used in Anglo-Saxon where in now appears. In Middle English and modern poetical and dial. use, in German dial., and reg. in Scandinavian, the preposition in is reduced to i, in present English commonly printed i'.
  2. from in, adv.
  3. Also inn, now with ref. only to inn, n.; from Middle English innen, from Anglo-Saxon innian, get in, lodge, from inn, in, in: see in, prep.
  4. Latin, = Anglo-Saxon and English in. etc.: see in.
 

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