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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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... much esteemed in public and in private life. The son had on his northern tour the pleasure to note, both at Aberdeen and at Inverness, the high regard in which the old judge was held, and to find his name and connection a very serviceable means of introduction to the travellers in their 'transit over the Caledonian hemisphere.' Like the father of Scott, who kept the whole bead-roll of cousins and relations and loved a funeral, Lord Auchinleck bequeathed to his eldest son at least one ...

— James Boswell - Famous Scots Series • William Keith Leask

... science, he completed an Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Holland, a work which as soon as published became thenceforward a text-book and an oracle in the law courts and the high schools of the country. Not forgetting theology, he composed for the use of the humbler ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... the main incident towards which all other incidents converge will rid compositions of worthless introductions and trailing conclusions. A story should get under way at once; and any explanations at the beginning, the introduction of long descriptions or tedious paragraphs of "fine writing," will be headed off if the pupil keeps constantly in mind that it must all lead directly toward the main incident. Again, if everything converges to the main incident, when that has been ...

— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

... decline of nations is, at least, now become a less natural and slower progress than formerly; the operations of war have now a quite different tendency from what they formerly had, and this effect is produced by the introduction of cannon, and a different mode of attack and defence; to carry on which, a very considerable degree of wealth ...

— An Inquiry into the Permanent Causes of the Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations. • William Playfair

... also a few of the more distinctly "smart" people, and a number who might be counted as social possibilities. Sommers had seen something in a superficial way of many of these people. Thanks to the Hitchcocks' introduction, and also to the receptive attitude of a society that was still very largely fluid, he had gone hither and thither pretty widely during this past year. There were quieter, less pretentious circles than this in which the Carsons aspired ...

— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

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