introduce
/ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ verb A1- To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else). · Let me introduce you to my friends.
- To make (something or someone) known, such as by formal announcement or recommendation. · The senator plans to introduce the bill in the next session.· Let me introduce our guest speaker.
- To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container. · Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.
- To bring (something) into practice. · Wheeled transport was introduced long ago.
Plural introduce · He/she/it introduces · Past introduced · Past participle introduced · -ing form introducing
Verb forms
- Base form
- introduce
- He/she/it
- introduces
- Past
- introduced
- Past participle
- introduced
- -ing form
- introducing
From the library
“We certainly owe Brother Mycroft a debt for having introduced us to what promises to be a really very remarkable case.”
However, scarcely was the imperial power established—that is, scarcely had the emperor re-entered the Tuileries and begun to issue orders from the closet into which we have introduced our readers,—he found on the table there Louis XVIII.’s half-filled snuff-box,—scarcely had this occurred when Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.
Neither of them had time to speak, however, before there was a tap at the door, and the spokesman of the street Arabs, young Wiggins, introduced his insignificant and unsavoury person.
Sherlock Holmes,” said Stamford, introducing us.
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