introduce

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɹəˈdjuːs/

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• Hyphenation: in‧tro‧duce

introduce (third-person singular simple present introduces, present participle introducing, simple past and past participle introduced)

1. (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →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.

   Let me introduce you to my friends.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.

   Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.

4. (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.

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introduce

1. present of introducer
2. imperative of introducer

introduce

1. third-person singular indicative present of introdurre

• decurtino

intrōdūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of intrōdūcō

Borrowed from Latin introducere.

• IPA^(key): [in.troˈdu.t͡ʃe]

a introduce (third-person singular present introduce, past participle introdus) 3rd conj.

1. (transitive) to insert
2. (transitive) to establish, enact (to appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.)

introduce

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of introducir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of introducir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of introducir.