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/ˌɪntrədˈəkʃən/ /ˌɪntroʊdˈəkʃən/ Listen

Introduction

noun

The act of beginning something new. Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, launching, unveiling.

The first section of a communication.

Formally making a person known to another or to the public. Synonyms: intro, presentation.

A basic or elementary instructional text.

A new proposal.

The act of putting one thing into another. Synonyms: insertion, intromission.

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new. Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, origination. "The foundation of a new scientific society"

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... laid just enough stress on the name to let it serve as a reminder or an introduction, as circumstances might decide, and she saw that Amherst, roused from his abstraction by the proffered clue, was ...

— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... tribes abound with rude vessels of clay, piously deposited with the dead. Previous to the discovery, the art of the potter was much more important, and its practice more general than it afterwards became, upon the introduction of metallic vessels. The mode of preparing and moulding the materials is minutely described by the early observers, and seems to have been common to all the tribes, and not to have varied materially from that day ...

— Choice Specimens of American Literature, And Literary Reader - Being Selections from the Chief American Writers • Benj. N. Martin

... continues:—'I had thus reduced an income of about 500 a-year of the dirtiest money upon earth to little more than 300; a considerable proportion of which remained with my clerk.' He added that he 'received from the Government a yearly pension out of the public service money.' Voyage to Lisbon, Introduction. ...

— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell

... convey ideas to one another were resorted to, and practised with energy. The press teemed with publications on the subject. The stump-orators were invoked, and the pulpit thundered anathemas against the introduction of slavery. The religious community coupled freedom and Christianity together, which was one of the most powerful levers used in the content. At one meeting of the friends of freedom in St. Clair county, more than thirty preachers of the gospel attended and opposed ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various

... mind and person could not but attract much attention. Many suitors began to appear, one after another, but she manifested no interest in any of them. The customs of society in France were such at that time, that it was difficult for any one who sought the hand of Jane to obtain an introduction to her. Consequently, the expedient was usually adopted of writing first to her parents. These letters were always immediately shown to Jane. She judged of the character of the writer by the character of the epistles. Her father, knowing her intellectual ...

— Madame Roland, Makers of History • John S. C. Abbott

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