GET INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does get into mean? 

• GET INTO (verb)
  The verb GET INTO has 5 senses:

1. get involved in or with

2. to come or go into

3. secure a place in a college, university, etc.

4. familiarize oneself thoroughly with

5. put clothing on one's body

  Familiarity information: GET INTO used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GET INTO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get involved in or with

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

get into; tangle with

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

To come or go into

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

come in; enter; get in; get into; go in; go into; move into

Context example:

the boat entered an area of shallow marshes

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 3

Meaning:

Secure a place in a college, university, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

get in; get into

Hypernyms (to "get into" is one way to...):

obtain (come into possession of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Familiarize oneself thoroughly with

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

He really got into semantics

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 5

Meaning:

Put clothing on one's body

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

assume; don; get into; put on; wear

Context example:

He got into his jeans

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"):

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)

hat (put on or wear a hat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

"I get into canoe and journey down to Cambell Fort to collect the debt!"

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Hump, he said at last, I must get into my bunk.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

You may safely trust him, for he appears to be too limp to get into any mischief.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If this Abe Slaney, living at Elrige’s, is indeed the murderer, and if he has made his escape while I am seated here, I should certainly get into serious trouble.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now we wish to get into the house, but we have no key; is it not so?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We had one violent storm, and were under a necessity of steering westward to get into the trade wind, which holds for above sixty leagues.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

If you’re hoping to get into graduate school, a professor may take you under his wing and help you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy.

(Diabetes, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

It may also get into water from runoff.

(Arsenic, Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry)

Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose,or sugar, get into your cells to give them energy.

(Diabetes in Children and Teens, NIH)