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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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"Introduction" Quotes from Famous Books

... Wallace or Prince Charlie?" He suggested that the story should be delivered "as if from the mouth of Old Mortality." This probably recalled to Scott his own meeting with Old Mortality in Dunnottar Churchyard, as described in the Introduction to the novel. ...

— Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... to think of it that ball falls at Greenwich time. It's the clock is worked by an electric wire from Dunsink. Must go out there some first Saturday of the month. If I could get an introduction to professor Joly or learn up something about his family. That would do to: man always feels complimented. Flattery where least expected. Nobleman proud to be descended from some king's mistress. His foremother. Lay it on with a trowel. Cap in hand ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... his black attendant, nor his chests and boat were to be found. Yet it was declared that no one had seen them leave the ship! This unaccountable disappearance made all hands wonder still more who the mysterious stranger could be. Such was my first introduction to the ...

— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston

... processes are taken for granted. The orderly world is to him proof of mind and method; and perhaps the first mistake in the average religious teaching is the departure from this broad basis of faith to what is termed "revealed religion" and is at the same time the religion of miracle. The introduction of miracle as a basis of faith amounts to sowing the seeds ...

— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben

... of magnificence, was courtly and noble, and befitting good old family style. The boasted imitation of nature in modern gardening had sprung up with modern republican notions, but did not suit a monarchical government; it smacked of the levelling system.—I could not help smiling at this introduction of politics into gardening, though I expressed some apprehension that I should find the old gentleman rather intolerant in his creed.—Frank assured me, however, that it was almost the only instance in which he had ever heard his father meddle with politics; and ...

— Old Christmas From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving • Washington Irving

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