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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English introducen, from Old French introduire, from Latin intrōdūcō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”) and *dewk-.
Pronunciation
Verb
introduce (third-person singular simple present introduces, present participle introducing, simple past and past participle introduced)
- (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
Let me introduce you to my friends.
1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 96:His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
- (transitive) To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.
The senator plans to introduce the bill in the next session.
Let me introduce our guest speaker.
- (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.
Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.
- (transitive) To bring (something) into practice.
Wheeled transport was introduced long ago.
2013 October 5, “The widening gyre”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8856:First introduced in Letchworth Garden City in 1909, the roundabout […] proved so popular in Britain that in the 1960s the Transport Research Laboratory developed a miniature version.
Conjugation
Synonyms
- (make something or someone known): announce
Derived terms
Translations
to cause someone to be acquainted
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- Arabic: قَدَّمَ (ar) (qaddama)
- Armenian: ծանոթացնել (hy) (canotʻacʻnel), ներկայացնել (hy) (nerkayacʻnel)
- Asturian: presentar (ast)
- Belarusian: прадстаўля́ць impf (pradstaŭljácʹ), прадста́віць pf (pradstávicʹ), знаёміць impf (znajómicʹ), пазнаёміць pf (paznajómicʹ)
- Bulgarian: представям (bg) (predstavjam), запознавам (bg) (zapoznavam)
- Catalan: presentar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 介紹/介绍 (gaai3 siu6), 紹介/绍介 (siu6 gaai3)
- Hokkien: 介紹/介绍 (zh-min-nan) (kài-siāu), 紹介/绍介 (siāu-kài)
- Mandarin: 介紹/介绍 (zh) (jièshào), 紹介/绍介 (zh) (shàojiè)
- Danish: introducere
- Dutch: introduceren (nl), voorstellen (nl)
- Esperanto: prezenti (eo)
- Estonian: tutvustama
- Finnish: esitellä (fi)
- French: présenter (fr)
- German: vorstellen (de), bekannt machen
- Hindi: परिचय (hi) (paricay)
- Hungarian: bemutat (hu)
- Italian: presentare (it)
- Japanese: 紹介する (ja) (しょうかいする, shōkai suru), 引き合わせる (hikiawaseru)
- Korean: 소개(紹介)하다 (ko) (sogaehada)
- Luxembourgish: virstellen
- Maori: whakataki
- Norwegian: presentere, forestille (no)
- Persian: معرفی کردن (fa) (mo'arrefi kardan)
- Polish: przedstawiać (pl) impf, przedstawić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: apresentar (pt)
- Romanian: prezenta (ro)
- Russian: представля́ть (ru) impf (predstavljátʹ), предста́вить (ru) pf (predstávitʹ), знако́мить (ru) impf (znakómitʹ), познако́мить (ru) pf (poznakómitʹ)
- Spanish: presentar (es)
- Swedish: presentera (sv)
- Thai: แนะนำ (th) (nɛ́-nam)
- Turkish: tanıştırmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: представля́ти impf (predstavljáty), предста́вити pf (predstávyty), знайо́мити impf (znajómyty), познайо́мити pf (poznajómyty)
- Vietnamese: giới thiệu (vi) (介紹)
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to add something to a system, a mixture, or a container
- Bulgarian: вкарвам (bg) (vkarvam), внасям (bg) (vnasjam)
- Catalan: introduir (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 導入/导入 (zh) (dǎorù)
- Esperanto: enplekti
- Finnish: lisätä (fi)
- French: introduire (fr)
- Hungarian: ereszt (hu), juttat (hu), enged (hu)
- Italian: introdurre (it), iniziare (it), inserire (it), incominciare (it), cominciare (it), avviare (it)
- Latin: intrōdūcō, indō
- Maori: kōkuhu, whakauru
- Occitan: introduire (oc)
- Portuguese: introduzir (pt)
- Spanish: introducir (es)
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to bring into practice
— see also bring in
Translations to be checked
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
introduce
- inflection of introducir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Interlingua
Verb
introduce
- present of introducer
- imperative of introducer
Italian
Verb
introduce
- third-person singular present indicative of introdurre
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
intrōdūce
- second-person singular present active imperative of intrōdūcō
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin introducere.
Pronunciation
Verb
a introduce (third-person singular present introduce, past participle introdus) 3rd conj.
- (transitive) to insert
- (transitive) to establish, enact (to appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.)
Conjugation
Further reading
Spanish
Verb
introduce
- inflection of introducir:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative