Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To present (someone) by name to another in order to establish an acquaintance.
  • transitive verb To present (a performer, for example) to the public for the first time.
  • transitive verb To make preliminary remarks about; preface.
  • transitive verb To put forward (a plan, for example) for consideration; propose.
  • transitive verb To provide (someone) with a beginning knowledge or first experience of something.
  • transitive verb To bring in and establish in a new place or environment.
  • transitive verb To bring into currency, use, or practice; originate.
  • transitive verb To put inside or into; insert or inject.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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.
  • To pass in; put in; insert: as, to introduce one's finger into an aperture.
  • 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.
  • To bring into notice, use, or practice; bring forward for acceptance: as, to introduce a new fashion, or an improved mode of tillage.
  • To bring forward with preliminary or preparatory matter; open to notice: as, to introduce a subject with a long preface.
  • To produce; cause to exist; induce.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb put or introduce into something
  • verb bring before the public for the first time, as of an actor, song, etc.
  • verb bring in or establish in a new place or environment
  • verb furnish with a preface or introduction
  • verb be a precursor of
  • verb bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment
  • verb bring something new to an environment
  • verb cause to come to know personally
  • verb introduce
  • verb put before (a body)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English introducen, to bring into, from Latin intrōdūcere : intrō-, within; see en in Indo-European roots + dūcere, to lead; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French, from Latin intrōdūcō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”) and Proto-Indo-European *dewk-.

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  • It may be useful to introduce from the outset key pertinent elements of the scientific theories involved, especially as concerns their relationships to the ideas of chance and chaos, and the concepts of (physical) reality correlative to them, which are my main subject here (these theories have other aspects).

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  • I would also like to introduce from the audience our old friend Stanley St. John, who is at the piano each week and is with us here again today and we do appreciate his music on all occasions.

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  • Our distinguished guest this evening, whom I have the honour to introduce, is Major-General Sir Francis W. de Guingand, K.B.E.,

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