Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
introduce (verb)transitive verb
1.
to lead or bring in especially for the first time - introduce a nonnative species
2.
a) to bring into play
b) to bring into practice or use - institute
3.
to lead to or make known by a formal act, announcement, or recommendation as
a) to cause to be acquainted
b) to present formally at court or into society
c) to present or announce formally or officially or by an official reading - introduce legislation
d) to make preliminary explanatory or laudatory remarks about
e) to bring (as an actor or singer) before the public for the first time
4.
- place insert introduce foreign genes into crops
5.
to bring to a knowledge of something - introduced them to new ideas
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
introduce (verb)1.
to make (one person) known (to another) socially
SYNONIMS:
acquaint, presentRELATED WORDS:
address, greet, hail, meet; reacquaint, reintroduce2.
to present or bring forward for discussion
SYNONIMS:
bring up, broach, moot, place, raiseRELATED WORDS:
allude (to), cite, mention, name, refer (to); offer, propose, suggest; air, express, speak (of), talk (about), vent, ventilate; interject, interrupt; debate, discuss, thrash (out over)NEAR ANTONYMS:
censor, hush (up), quiet, silence, suppress3.
to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of
SYNONIMS:
begin, constitute, establish, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, institute, introduce, launch, pioneer, plant, set up, startRELATED WORDS:
author, father, originate; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), create, devise, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, produce, think (up); construct, put up; develop, enlarge, expand; endow, finance, fund, subsidize; arrange, organize, systematize, systemize; refound, reinitiate, reinstitute, relaunchNEAR ANTONYMS:
abolish, annihilate, annul, nullify; end, finish, halt, stop, terminate; round (off out), wind up, wrap up4.
to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to
SYNONIMS:
accustom, familiarize, initiate, introduce, orient, orientateRELATED WORDS:
habituate, wont; apprise, brief, clue (in), fill in, inform; educate, enlighten, ground, instruct, school, train, verse; expose, present, subject; advise, tell, tip (off), warn, wise (up); reacquaint5.
to put among or between others
SYNONIMS:
edge in, fit (in into), inject, insinuate, intercalate, interject, interpolate, interpose, intersperse, introduce, sandwich (in between), work inRELATED WORDS:
cut in, inlay, inset, install; interfile, interline, lard, weave; cram, shove, thrust, wedge; add, append, attachNEAR ANTONYMS:
eject, eliminate, exclude, expel, extract, withdraw; deduct, detach, subtract; reject