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From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishinin1 /ɪn/ ●●● S1 W1 preposition
🌱 1 IN/INSIDEused with the name of a ona bet:container, place, or 🅰ar🍃ea to say where someone or something is
There’s some ♕sugar in the🐟 cupboard.
My mother was in the kitchen.
He took us for a 🃏drive in his new car.
I found her sitting up in bed.
✱Manson spent fifteen years in prison.
a hole in the ground
ꩲ Mr Fisher 🦂is in Boston this week.
🦹 ꦅ My parents live in New Zealand now. 2 into a container, place etc
I never went in pubs.
He almost drowned when he fell in the riܫver.
ꦚ You can put your pyjamas in the bottom dra💞wer.
Get in the car.
ꦐ She looked in h꧃er handbag, but her keys were not there.
3 TALK TO somebodyWRITEused to say how something is done or happens
a ro𝓰om furnish꧑ed in the modern style
🔴 Her parents aౠlways talk to her in German.
She shouted my name in a hars🌄h voice.
a short not🉐e scribbled in pencil
The title was printed in c🍨apital l✅etters.
We waited in silence. 4 TIME/AT A PARTICULAR TIMEused with the names of months, years, seasons etc to say when something happens
🎃 Shaw first visited Russia in 1927.
🦹 Bright yellow flowers appear in late summer.
He retired in October.5 DURINGduring a period of time
🐠 It was amazing how much we managed to do in a day.
th൩e hardest decision I ever made in my lifeGrammar• You say: I got a card from my sister this morning. I hope to go to Europe next summer. ✗Don’t say: in this morning | in next summer• You say: The group meets three times a month. ✗Don’t say: three times in a month• You can say in one week, month etc when empha♉sizing how often something hap♍pens: He was stopped for speeding three times in one month.
6 AFTERat the end of a period of time
I’ll be with you in a minute.
The results will be announced ಌin two we▨eks’ time.► see thesaurus at after7 PERIOD OF TIMEused with ona bet:negatives or with ‘first’ to say how much time has passedﷺ since the last time something hapꦗpened
🌸I haven’t enjoyed myself so much in years.
It was the team’s first win i꧒n eighteen months.8 IN/INSIDEused to name the book, document, film etc where something or someone appears
💞You shouldn’t believe🙈 everything you read in the newspapers.
Which aไctress starred in the film ‘Cleopatra’?
There are a fe🐼w mistakes in your essay.
In his speec🧜h, Professor Leaܫry praised the work of the volunteers. 9 making up the whole of something or included as part of something
There are twelve programmes in the s🅷eries.
🅷How many minutes are there in an hour?
Think of a word with eight letters in 🐠it meaning ‘cold’.
Owen ൲will be pla💎ying in the England team tomorrow.10 JOB/WORKdoing or ona bet:affecting a particular kind of job
a career in industry
He’s been in politics f♈or fifteen years.
reforms in education
11 WEAR CLOTHESwearing something
He looked very handsome in hisꦍ uniform.
⛦ She was dressed in a💧 blue linen suit. 12 used to talk about the state or situation of something or someone
I hear that their🎃 marriage is in tro🥂uble.
The engine appears to be i❀n good conditionꦚ.
His life was in danger.
The castle now lies in ruins.13 used to say what activity a group of people do
About 4,000 students took part in the protesওt.
his role in the negotiations14 used to talk about the shape, ona bet:arrangement, or course of something or someone
🍰 I want you all to stand in a circle.
She slept curled up in a ball.
♏ Can you walk in a straight line? 15 HMNUMBERused between a smaller number and a larger number to say how common or how likely something is
♏ One in ten 💯homes now has cable TV.
Smokers have a one in three chance of dying fro🔴m their habit.
16 used before a plural number or amount to say how many people or things are involve🅠d, or how many there are in each group
ꦰ Eggs are still sold in half dozens.
The children work in pairs.in their hundreds/thousands etc (=in very large numbers)
People flocked in their thousands to greet tܫheir new princes🦩s.17 used between a smaller number or amount and a larger one to say what a rate is
Income tax stands♋ at 23 pence in t꧑he pound.
🌌 a hill with a gradient of one in six 18 used to say what colour something is or what it is made of
D👍o you ⛄have the same pattern in blue?
a sculpture in white marble19 CONNECTED WITHused to say what specific thing your ona bet:statement is related to
Milk is very rich in calcium.
Clark had become more extreme in his🦂 opinions.
an increase in fuel prices
ꦓ The street is about a mile in length.20 used to refer to the weather or the physical conditions somewhere
❀ I’ve been standing in the rain for over an hour.
🌞 𓄧 Would you prefer to sit in the shade?
21 SHOW A FEELING OR ATTITUDEused to say what feeling you have when you do something
She looked at me in horror.
It was all done purely in fun.22 RELATIONSHIPused before the name of someone or something when you are saying how they are regarded
♏ You have a very good🅺 friend in Pat.
𝔍 In Dwight D. Eisenhower the Republicans had found the ideal candidate.23 used to say what person or thing has the quality you are ona bet:mentioning
🍸 There was a hint of spring in the air.
I don’t think Fre💦ddy had it in him to be a 𒆙killer.
She’s everything I’d want in a wife (=she has every qua💙lity I would want a wife to ha🌄ve).24 used to name the ona bet:substance, food, drink etc that contains something
Vitamin D is found in butter.25 used to say how many parts something is divided into
a radio serial in four partsin two/halves/pieces etc
I tore the letter in two and threw the pieces in t꧂he fire.26 while doing something or while something is happening, and as a result of this
In all the confusion, it ♎is quite possib♚le that some people got tickets without paying.
💛 In my excitement, I forg🌊ot all about the message.in doing something
ꦯ In trying to protect the queen, Howard had put his own life in danger.
27 → in that28 →ona bet: be in your 20s/30s/40s etc → in allExamples from the Corpusin• I'll be back in a couple of days.• Everybody stand against the wall in a straight line.• Gerry should be home in an hour.• a couple of boys in baseball caps• His early comedies were filmed in black and white.• "How old is Philip now?" "He's four in December".• Francis and his friend were drinking tea in his room.• All these memories of Judith are still fresh in my mind.• Did you read that article in "Newsweek"?• an expert in nuclear physics• Do not write in pen on this test.• Homelessness is a major problem in society today.• European ona bet:manufacturers are facing ever increasing ona bet:competition from companies in the Far East.• He made a bowl in the shape of a heart.• He did a lot of abstract art in the sixties, but he's moved on since then.• He died in the war.• "Where's Annie?" "She's in the yard."• Bob's out working in the yard.• Everyone in town knew Archie.
in their hundreds/thousands etc• Even at its end the members were still rolling-in in their thꦉousands - 4000-5000 a week in Greenpeace's case.• London's ona bet:influence was thus ona bet:widespread, and the gardens ona bet:attributed to him may be numbered in their hundreds.• Small ona bet:livestock farmers have gone to the wall in their thousands.• They throng the streets and mini-timbered ona bet:buildings of Gumnutland in their hundreds.• We count monkeys in the trees and macaws at their clay licks where they ona bet:congregate in their hundreds.• Rats in their thousands fed on the grain in the Government stores while the people went hungry.• We had come to Phang Nga to visit the ona bet:limestone islands that rear in their hundreds from the bay.• They came in their thousands to see the boss on his 1993 world tour.in two/halves/pieces etc• It carved the daemon in two.• The attack on the nobility is found in two aspects of the plot.• It it opened the year by yielding 76 combined points in two losses.• ona bet:Particles in two places at once?• This led to ona bet:frustration in two respects.• And oil was dropped in two spills between Ballaspur and Glen Helen-on some of the circuit's earlier corners.• Experience which ona bet:conflicts with a so far accepted theory can be treated in two ways.• That ona bet:triggered a rush of new rules -- more than 1,100 in two weeks -- to beat the 1995 deadline.in doing something• In reading the story, I felt nothing but sympathy for the victims.Related topics: Sportinin2 ●●● S1 W1 adverb
🎉 ⛦ 1 IN/INSIDEinto or inside a container, place, vehicle etc OPP out
Eri💝c held the boat steady while the children got in.
He went to th⭕e ticket ꦚmachine and put a coin in.
𓆏 She dived in and swam out𒈔 to the yacht.2 HEREinside or into a building, especially your home or the place where you work OPP out
Come in and sit down.
🍬 I’m afraid Mr Stewart won’t be in until tomorrow morning.
We’re staying in this evening.3 ARRIVEif a train, boat, or plane is in, it has arrived at a station, airport etc
Our train’s not in yet.
When’s her flight due in?4 ARRIVEgiven or sent to a person or organization to be dealt with by them
All entries must bꩵe in by next week.
Letters have been pour🦋ing in from all over the country.
Have you handed your essay in yet𒆙?5 PROVIDEif you write, paint, or draw something in, you add it in the correct place
Fill in your name and address on the fo🦂rm provided.
T🎃he information is type♎d in by trained keyboarders.6 DSif a player or team is in during a game of cricket, they are batting (bat)7 DSif a ball is in during a game, it is inside the area where the game is being pl💮ayed OPP out
Agas✨si’s second serve was just in.8 if a ona bet:politician or a political party is in, they have been elected
Labour recorded its 𝔍highest vote ever, but the Tories go𒅌t in again.9 MIDDLEtowards the centre SYN inward(s)
The ma♊p had started to curl in at the edges.10 TTWwhen the tide is in, the sea by the shore is at its highest level OPP out
🎃 The tide was in, and🍌 the sea lapped against the harbour wall.11 →ona bet: be in for something12 →ona bet: be in for it13 →ona bet: be/get in on something14 →ona bet: be in with somebody15 →ona bet: b⛦e in at the beginning/start (of somethin♛g) → ona bet: have (got) it in for somebodyExamples from the Corpusin• What time does his bus get in?• Don't write out cheques to your adviser - always make them payable to the company you're ona bet:investing in.• Nothing remained that had not been ripped, smashed or kicked in.• Her second serve was just in.• She pushed the box toward me so that I could put my money in.• Should we wait out here, or should we go in?• Long hair is in again.• Alistair rushed in as we hoard the record loudly scraped off the ona bet:turntable.• Your final papers have to be in by Friday.• Jody puts Jess in, hoping her ona bet:intensity will spark some-thing.• The Republicans are in now, but for how long?• We need to make plans for next week, so are you in or ꦛ♐out?• Can you color in this picture of a teddy bear for me?• You're never in when I call.• Ms. Shaewitz isn't in yet this morning.• Her flight's not in yet.• Write in your name and address at the bottom.inin3 adjective
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𓄧 informalFASHIONABLE ona bet:fashionable OPP out
Red is definitely the in🥀 colour this year.
Long skꦏirts are in at the moment.
I joine⛄d the club because it seemed the in thing to do.► see thesaurus at ona bet: fashionableExamples from the Corpusin• Gstaad is the in place to go skiing in winter.• Cycling to work has become the in thing to do.• Purple seems to be in this year.inin4 noun
1 →ona bet: the ins and outs of something2 [singular] especially American English a way of getting the ona bet:opportunity to do something or influence someone
The job is preᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtty boring, but it’s an in to a career in publishing.inin5 British English, in. American English (plural in or ins)
the written ona bet:abbreviation of inch or inchesin-in- /ɪn/ prefix
NOTthe opposite or lack of something SYN not, → un-, il-, im-, ir-
insensitive (=not sensitive)
incautious (=not cautious)
inattention (=lack of attention)Examples from the Corpusin-• income• inward• to insert somethingININthe written abbreviation of IndianaFrom Longman Business Dictionaryinin written abbreviation for INCH or INCHESOrigin in- French Latin in1 Old English
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