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ingo

ingo noun: the frame of a door, window, fireplace, or similar structure.

Noun (1)

ingo (plural ingoes)

  1. The frame of a door, window, fireplace, or similar structure.
    • The ingoes of a second window in the wing of the Tower at first floor level were found in the east wall. The masonry of one of these ingoes has been incorporated in the north ingo of the large slapping at this part of the College foyer.1969, The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club - Volume 33, Part 1
    • The ingo of the doorway was evidently spanned with timber lintels, but none survive.1980, Argyll - an Inventory of the Monuments, page 204
  2. A substance or thing that has gone in.
    • An accurate record was kept of all of the ingo, and all the outgo from the cows.1890, Annual Report of the U.S. Agricultural Experiment Station for Dakota
    • It refers to the ingo and outgo and what takes place with the ingo, what becomes of it, how it is changed into the material that goes out, what is built up, what is assimilated, how the changes take place here and there. That is all metabolism.1912, The United States, Appellant, Vs. Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs
  3. The act or process of going in.
    • We may pass by a large number of truly mental phenomena as not being necessarily attended with consciousness, and in these the relation of the transformation of Energy, or the doing of work, is probably the same as obtains in ordinary vital or metabolic action, viz., the ingo of force through...1874, John Gordon, Stewart Drysdale, The Protoplasmic Theory of Life, page 231
    • Now, assuming "ideas of matter" to mean some knowledge of matter, and the " inversion of the outgo" to mean the ingo, which seems rational, and "creative activities" to mean that impulse in matter to evolute as we see it in the cosmos, while the only verbalism we can think of for non-being is...1903, J. K. Hayward -, A Rebuttal of Spiritism Et Al, page 128

Noun (2) capitalized: INGO

INGO (plural INGOs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of international non-governmental organization.

Examples of ingo in a sentence

  • Reveal tie fixings are achieved by placing telescopic extending tubes across the window openings and wedging them against the window ingoes (reveals).1995, Andy Davey -, The Care and Conservation of Georgian Houses:
  • We have to get a better balance between our ingo and our outgo – calories consumed and calories expended.2010, Stephen W. Reiss, Family, Farming and Freedom: Fifty-Five Years of Writings by Irv Reiss, →ISBN:
  • Furthermore, owing to the aforesaid means of balancing the ingo and outgo of sugar, its percentage in the blood must remain practically constant.1922, Russell Burton-Opitz, An Elementary Manual of Physiology for Colleges, Schools of Nursing, of Physical Education, and of the...

Forms of ingo

pluralingoes
pluralINGOs

Origin of ingo

From in- + go.

Questions about ingo

What does ingo mean?
Ingo means the frame of a door, window, fireplace, or similar structure.
How do you use ingo in a sentence?
Reveal tie fixings are achieved by placing telescopic extending tubes across the window openings and wedging them against the window ingoes (reveals).
What part of speech is ingo?
Ingo is a noun.
What is the plural of ingo?
The plural of ingo is ingoes.

Words near ingo in the dictionary

  1. ingluviolith
  2. ingluvioliths
  3. ingluviotomies
  4. ingluviotomy
  5. ingluvious
  6. ingo
  7. ingodite
  8. ingoer
  9. ingoers
  10. ingoes
  11. Ingoglia

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