introduceとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Old French [Term?], from Latin intrōdūcō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”) and *dewk-.

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌɪntɹəˈdjuːs/
• ハイフネーション: in‧tro‧duce

動詞

introduce (三人称単数 現在形 introduces, 現在分詞 introducing, 過去形および過去分詞形 introduced)

1. (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).
   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 96:

     His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.

   Let me introduce you to my friends.

2. (transitive) To make (something または someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation.

   The senator plans to introduce the bill in the next session.

   Let me introduce our guest speaker.

3. (transitive) To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container.

   Various pollutants were introduced into the atmosphere.

4. (transitive) To bring (something) into practice.

   Wheeled transport was introduced long ago.

   • 2013 October 5, “The widening gyre”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8856:

     First introduced in Letchworth Garden City in 1909, the roundabout […] proved so popular in Britain that in the 1960s the Transport Research Laboratory developed a miniature version.

同意語

• (make something または someone known): announce

アナグラム

• reduction

Latin

動詞

intrōdūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of intrōdūcō