introduce
Bring people together
Introduce means to bring something or someone into a situation for the first time.
You introduce a friend to your parents, a speaker to an audience, or a new policy to an organization.
To introduce yourself is to tell someone your name upon first meeting.
Introduce also means to present something new: The company introduced a redesigned model.
In formal contexts, bills are introduced in legislatures.
To introduce someone to a subject or activity is to give them their first experience of it: My uncle introduced me to jazz.
To start something
pioneer · inaugurate · originate · instigate · embark · activate · implement · enact
Reveal something hidden
- discloseReveal hidden information
- announceState something officially
- presentGift or current moment
- debutFirst public appearance
expose · uncover · divulge · declare · publish · broadcast · proclaim · leak
Offer an idea indirectly
- recommendSuggest with approval
- submitPresent for consideration
- presentGift or current moment
- tableHorizontal furniture surface
advance · offer · motion · nominate · float · broach · raise · sponsor
Combine into total
- injectInsert by needle
- incorporateAbsorb into something larger
- infuseSaturate by steeping
- implantDevice placed inside tissue
embed · instill · bring-in · import · integrate · interject · splice · graft
One receiving guests
- speakerOne who talks
- podiumRaised platform for speakers
- stageRaised performance platform
- microphoneAudio input device
audience · emcee · facilitator · ceremony · announcement · orientation · icebreaker · keynote
Come into contact
- greetAcknowledge upon meeting
- handshakeMutual palm-gripping gesture
- icebreakerTension-easing social activity
- networkingBuilding professional relationships
connection · socialize · mingle · contact · liaison · referral · matchmaking · rapport
begin
To start something
establish · pioneer · inaugurate · originate · instigate · embark · activate · implement · enact · kick-off
unveil
Reveal something hidden
debut · expose · uncover · divulge · declare · publish · broadcast · proclaim · leak · unmask
suggest
Offer an idea indirectly
table · advance · offer · motion · nominate · float · broach · raise · sponsor · champion
add
Combine into total
- injectInsert by needle
- incorporateAbsorb into something larger
- infuseSaturate by steeping
implant · embed · instill · bring-in · import · integrate · interject · splice · graft · intermix
host
One receiving guests
microphone · audience · emcee · facilitator · ceremony · announcement · orientation · icebreaker · keynote · moderator
meet
Come into contact
- greetAcknowledge upon meeting
- handshakeMutual palm-gripping gesture
- icebreakerTension-easing social activity
networking · connection · socialize · mingle · contact · liaison · referral · matchmaking · rapport · reception
- performingperform, sing, play, act, dance
- establishestablish, found, institute, create, set up
- false friendsactual, actually, embarrassed, eventually, fabric
- meeting actionsmeet, encounter, greet, approach, run into
- presentationpresent, deliver, demonstrate, display, show
- social actionsinteract, communicate, connect, socialize, engage
- needs no introductionObviously familiar to all
- needing no introductionAlready famous to all
- introductory rateTemporary low initial charge
- needed no introductionRequired no presentation
- introductory offerInitial discounted price
- introductory coursesEntry-level academic instruction
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