introduce

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To present (someone) by name to another in order to establish an acquaintance.
2. v. To present (a performer, for example) to the public for the first time.
3. v. To bring forward (a plan, for example) for consideration.
4. v. To provide (someone) with a beginning knowledge or first experience of something: introduced me to weightlifting.
5. v. To bring in and establish in a new place or environment: exotic plants that had been introduced from the jungle.
6. v. To bring into currency, use, or practice; originate: introduced the new product in several test markets; introduced the tango into their circle of friends.
7. v. To put inside or into; insert or inject.
8. v. To open or begin; preface: introduced the slide show with an orienting talk.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To lead or bring in; conduct or usher in: as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room; to introduce foreign produce into a country.
2. To pass in; put in; insert: as, to introduce one's finger into an aperture.
3. To make known, as one person to another, or two persons to each other; make acquainted by personal encounter or by letter; present, with the mention of names and titles.
4. To bring into notice, use, or practice; bring forward for acceptance: as, to introduce a new fashion, or an improved mode of tillage.
5. To bring forward with preliminary or preparatory matter; open to notice: as, to introduce a subject with a long preface.
6. To produce; cause to exist; induce.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive, of people To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
2. v. transitive To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
3. v. transitive To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
4. v. transitive To bring (something) into practice.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in.
2. v. To put (something into a place); to insert.
3. v. To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted
4. v. To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use.
5. v. obsolete To produce; to cause to exist; to induce.
6. v. To open to notice; to begin; to present.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. put or introduce into something
2. v. bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.
3. v. bring in or establish in a new place or environment
4. v. furnish with a preface or introduction
5. v. be a precursor of
6. v. bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment
7. v. bring something new to an environment
8. v. cause to come to know personally
9. v. introduce.
10. v. put before (a body)