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語源

From 中期英語 introducen, from Old French introduire, from Latin intrōdūcō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”) and *dewk-.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA: /ˌɪntɹəˈdʒuːs/
  • (non-yod-coalescence) IPA: /ˌɪntɹəˈdjuːs/
• (General American) IPA: /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/, (proscribed) /ˌɪn(t)əɹˈdus/
• ハイフネーション: in‧tro‧duce

動詞

introduce (third-person singular simple present introduces, present participle introducing, simple past and past participle introduced)

1. (transitive, of people) To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else).

   Let me introduce you to my friends.

   • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →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.

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

   Synonym: give

   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.

   • 1937, China. Hsing chen yüan. Hsin wen chü (contributor), Macmillan (publisher), “Communications”, in China Handbook, page 240, column 1:

     In conformity with the decision of the Ministry of Interior, the Kansu-Szechwan Standard Time (same as Chungking Time) has been introduced as the standard time for all the railways.

   • 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.

Conjugation

同意語

• (make something or someone known): announce

派生語

アナグラム

• reduction