(prep.) To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.
(prep.) Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.
(prep.) Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.
(prep.) Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.
(prep.) Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.
(prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.
Example Sentences:
Invade
Definition:
(v. t.) To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
(v. t.) To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.
(v. t.) To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
(v. t.) To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
(v. i.) To make an invasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
(2) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(3) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
(4) All three parasite lines required sialic acid for optimal invasion, but Thai-2 parasites cultured in Tn erythrocytes invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with 45% efficiency whereas Camp parasites invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with less than 10% efficiency.
(5) The conclusion is that AIDS has invaded Taiwan, but the prevalence of the HIV infection is presently low.
(6) They have similar axon trajectories into the thoracic ganglia, where they invade functionally related neuropils.
(7) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
(8) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(9) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
(10) The immune system has evolved to protect an organism from the pathogens that invade it but the effector mechanisms involved in mediating this protection are potentially lethal to the host itself.
(11) In this report, it will be stressed that when clival chordoma invades intradually, subtemporal approach will be most favorable, and metrizamide CT cisternography is one of the useful diagnostic procedures of retroclival mass.
(12) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(14) The Sunni, driven from power and office by the invaders, were unwilling to accept their newly diminished status.
(15) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(16) Infections of Leishmania mexicana in cultured normal mouse peritoneal macrophages show different morphological features depending on whether the parasites invade as promastigote or amastigote forms.
(17) The interstitium between alveoli is invaded with lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells and fibroblasts.
(18) The hypoxic fraction increased dramatically when these tumours invaded the subcutaneous tissues, or when tumours were implanted subcutaneously (TCD50 greater than 5,544 rad).
(19) "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people.
(20) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.