INTRODUCE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Introduce

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ˌɪntrədˈus/ /ˌɪntroʊdˈus/ Listen

verb

Introduce v. t. (past & past part. introduced; pres. part. introducing)

To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe.

To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.

To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.

To produce; to cause to exist; to induce. (Obs.) "Whosoever introduces habits in children, deserves the care and attention of their governors."

To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface.

Synonyms: To bring in; usher in; insert; begin; preface.

See images of 'Introduce'

Etymology of 'Introduce'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Introduce" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the sound could be heard several yards off. Several males were at rest, but mostly on the wing, when they would make a dash among the fanners, and all would scatter and play about. The workers seem to be of a uniform size, and full as large as the males. I think the object of the fanning was to introduce air into the nest, as is done by the ...

— Our Common Insects - A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, - Gardens and Houses • Alpheus Spring Packard

... annoyance. The question which had been so superciliously asked was at last answered. Everybody reads an American book. The morning-star of our literature rose in the genius of IRVING. There was something in his personal conditions which singularly fitted him to introduce the New World in its holiday-dress to the polite company of the Old World. His father was a Scotchman, his mother was an Englishwoman, and he was born in America. "Diedrich Knickerbocker" is a near relation of some of Scott's characters; "Bracebridge Hall" might have been written ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 78, April, 1864 • Various

... the impoverishment of imagination that his subject seemed to impose upon him. On looking once more over Andreini's list of prohibited topics, we are surprised to find how many of them Milton has found a place for. He does introduce points of history, sacred and profane; he relates fictions of fabulous deities; he rehearses loves, furies, triumphs, conflagrations, and things of a like nature. The principal conflagration that he describes is on a very large scale; and the ...

— Milton • Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

... sure,' was the somewhat provoking answer. 'You were not there to introduce us, you know, and of course I could not swear ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... commoditie to doe it: of whiche I can not bee, who never commaunded, nor cannot commaunde, but to armies of straungers, and to men bounde to other, and not to me: in whiche if it be possible, or no, to introduce anie of those thynges that this daie of me hath ben reasoned, I will leave it to ...

— Machiavelli, Volume I - The Art of War; and The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli

More quotes...