Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal An introduction.
Wiktionary
- n. Short form of introduction.
- n. demoscene A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
- v. informal, transitive To introduce.
Etymologies
- Abbreviated from introduction, from Latin, ultimately a compound from intrō ("I enter") – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“A little friendly critique, Tee – 1. the intro is a lot of unnecessary noise, and tends to put one off.”
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“The film will premiere at the festival (and we'll be bringing you the exclusive trailer when it does), but for now we've got an exclusive clip of this bromantic comedy and an intro from the director herself.”
Sundance: Bromance Blossoms In ‘Humpday’ — Watch An Exclusive Clip! » MTV Movies Blog
“Senior Managing Editor Scott Allie offers a new introduction, calling this stage in Hellboy's career "the turning point, in every way," and director Guillermo Del Toro's intro is republished here as well.”
“Reminds me of the intro from a short-lived TV series called New Amsterdam (which is on Hulu), where the guy takes a shot of Times Square every year for the hundreds of years he has lived.”
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“The intro is a far cry from typical "Simpsons" fare and features some very disturbing commentary, including a dying unicorn enslaved to punch holes in the middle of "Simpsons" DVDs.”
The Huffington Post: Banksy Directs Dark Opening For 'The Simpsons' (VIDEO)
“Got you book today from Amazon and the intro is spot on!”
“Anyway this long boring intro is leading up to my story for today, which revolves around another feature of Hansen and Quinn: they include passages from actual Greek texts at the back of each chapter so that you can practice with real Greek writing.”
“The instrumental score in the intro is really kind of breath-taking.”
“I've talked so much and so highly about Wall-E over the last few months, that I think this intro is best left to Rotten Tomatoes.”
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“Pity they show a preview while the nice song intro is playing.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘intro’.
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MUSIC - ALL TERMS
With focus on non-classical styles, but not excluding terms of the latter.
banjo, accompaniment, acoustic bass, bass guitar, bass clef, ground, brass, cornet, Mute, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, arrangement and 866 more...
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Prefixes
a-, ab, abs, ambi, ante, anti, aqu, aqua, arch, astro, auto, bene and 71 more...
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Abbreviations for taking notes
As an ESL (English as a second language) learner, I think this sort of list would be most utile.
btw, lng, ex., ch., ed., w\, w\o, i.e., e.g., etc., b\c, b\4 and 42 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
Tweets
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