Dictionary entry
Introduce
Pronunciation: /ɪntrəˈdjuːs/
Pronunciation
/ɪntrəˈdjuːs/
Myanmar Meaning
(v) စတင်
Definition
introduce /Çntrǝ'dju:s; US 'du:s/ v ၁။ ~ sth (into/ to sth) စတင္သည္။ The company is introducing a new range of cars this year. ❍ a newly introduced ban on smoking in public places ❍ New pay scales have been introduced. ❍ introduce the latest technology into schools. ၂။ (က) ~ sth / sb (into sth) ထည့္သည္။ A new character is introduced in Chapter 3. (ခ) စတင္တင္သြင္းသည္။ Vegetation patterns changed when goats were introduced to the island. ၃။ ~ oneself/ sb (to sb) မိတ္ဆက္သည္။ Allow me to introduce my wife. ❍ May I/ Let me introduce myself — I'm Helen Robinson. ❍ I was introduced to a Greek girl at the party. ၄။ ~ sb to sth (က) မိတ္ဆက္ေပးသည္။ The first lecture introduces students to the main topics of the course. (ခ) ဇာတ္သြင္းသည္။ introduce young people to alcohol/ drugs ❍ It was she who first introduced me to the pleasures of wine-tasting. ၅။ မိတ္ဆက္ေပးသည္။ The next programme is introduced by Mary Davidson. ၆။ ( esp politics ) တင္သြင္းသည္။ introduce a Bill (before Parliament). ၇။ အစပ်ဳိးသည္။ နိဒါန္းပ်ဳိးသည္။ ထည့္သြင္းသည္။ A slow theme introduces the first movement. ❍ introduce a new subject into the conversation ❍ New players have been introduced into the team. ၈။ ~ sth (into sth) ( fml ) ထိုးသြင္းသည္။ ပါရိွေစသည္။ introduce a hypodermic needle into a vein ❍ Particles of glass had been introduced into the baby food. ❍ ( fig ) introduce a new element of risk. အႏၲရာယ္တစ္ရပ္ ထပ္တိုးလာ ေစသည္။
Examples
- Have you two been introduced?
- [introduce someone to someone] : I would like to introduce you to my friend Martin.
- [introduce yourself] : He introduced himself as (=said his name was) Major Desmond Morton.
- Schools have been forced to introduce harsher disciplinary measures.
- A recently introduced laptop computer
- They intend to introduce legislation to prevent human cloning.
- Be careful what other fish you introduce into the aquarium.
- [introduce something to/into something] : Chocolate was introduced to Europe from Mexico.
- [introduce someone to something] : She’s introducing the children to literature from Asian countries.
- It is my pleasure to introduce tonight’s speaker.