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GET INTO
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Put clothing on one's body
Example:
He got into his jeans
Synonyms:
assume; don; get into; put on; wear
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "get into" is one way to...):
dress; get dressed (put on clothes)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get into"):
hat (put on or wear a hat)
try; try on (put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice)
scarf (wrap in or adorn with a scarf)
slip on (put on with ease or speed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Familiarize oneself thoroughly with
Example:
He really got into semantics
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "get into" is one way to...):
acquaint; familiarise; familiarize (make familiar or conversant with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
Sense 3
Meaning:
To come or go into
Example:
the boat entered an area of shallow marshes
Synonyms:
come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "get into"):
dock (come into dock)
encroach upon; intrude on; invade; obtrude upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)
intrude; irrupt (enter uninvited)
board; get on (get on board of (trains, buses, ships, aircraft, etc.))
turn in (make an entrance by turning from a road)
take water (enter the water)
call at; out in (enter a harbor)
walk in (enter by walking)
pop in (enter briefly)
file in (enter by marching in a file)
re-enter (enter again)
penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)
take the field (go on the playing field, of a football team)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Secure a place in a college, university, etc.
Synonyms:
get in; get into
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "get into" is one way to...):
obtain (come into possession of)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Get involved in or with
Synonyms:
get into; tangle with
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "get into" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy.
(Diabetes Medicines, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Meningeal syndrome may be caused by blood, cancer cells, or substances from the breakdown of cancer cells that get into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
(Meningeal syndrome, NCI Dictionary)
While similarities between diabetes and Alzheimer’s have long been suspected, they have been difficult to evaluate, since insulin is not needed for glucose to enter the brain or to get into neurons.
(Higher brain glucose levels may mean more severe Alzheimer’s, National Institutes of Health)
The old man grinned, and showed his teeth, as if he should have been very glad to get into the circle if he could.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
So they looked for the place where it would be easiest to get into the forest.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Whenever I have not had you, Agnes, to advise and approve in the beginning, I have seemed to go wild, and to get into all sorts of difficulty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I'll be as prim as I can and not get into any scrapes, if I can help it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then you are not in the habit of bolting your door every night before you get into bed?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
You will think me rhapsodising; but when I am out of doors, especially when I am sitting out of doors, I am very apt to get into this sort of wondering strain.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I don't want to get into a bear-garden.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
