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| Main Entry: |
introduction
 [in-truh-duhk-shuhn] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something new; something that begins |
| Synonyms: | addition, admittance, awakening, baptism, basic principles, basic text, beginning, commencement, debut, essentials, establishment, exordium, first acquaintance, first taste, foreword, hornbook, inauguration, inception, induction, influx, ingress, initiation, insertion, installation, institution, interpolation, intro, launch, lead, lead-in, opening, opening remarks, overture, pioneering, preamble, preface, preliminaries, prelude, presentation, primer, proem, prolegomenon, prologue, survey |
| Antonyms: | conclusion, end, ending, finish |
| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | part of a performance |
| Synonyms: | bit*, curtain, epilogue, gag, introduction, number, piece, prologue, routine, scene, schtick, show, sketch, spot, turn |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | admission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entering or allowing entry |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, access, admittance, certification, confirmation, designation, door, entrance, entree, ingress, initiation, introduction, permission, reception, recognition, way, welcome |
| Antonyms: | denial, exclusion, expulsion, refusal |
Example Sentences
- The law is popular with those who support the rapid introduction of new clean technology.
- The concept is nothing new: before the introduction of chemicals into agriculture, all farming could have been considered organic.
- Deforestation and the introduction of dogs, cats and mongooses that eat solenodons threaten to drive the critters to extinction.
| Main Entry: | appearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming into sight |
| Synonyms: | actualization, advent, appearing, arrival, coming, debut, display, emergence, entrance, exhibition, introduction, manifestation, materialization, presence, presentation, representation, rise, showing up, turning up, unveiling |
| Antonyms: | absence, departure, disappearance, leaving |
| Main Entry: | baptism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | church rite; initiation |
| Synonyms: | ablution, baptismal, christening, debut, dedication, dunking, immersion, introduction, launching, lustration, purgation, purge, purification, rite of passage, ritual, sanctification, sprinkling |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
| Main Entry: | debut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first public appearance |
| Synonyms: | admission, appearance, beginning, bow, coming out, coming out party, entrance, entree, first step, graduating, graduation, inauguration, incoming, initiation, introduction, launching, opener, presentation |
| Antonyms: | closing, finale |
| Main Entry: | discovery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finding, uncovering |
| Synonyms: | analysis, ascertainment, authentication, calculation, certification, detection, determination, diagnosis, discernment, disclosure, distinguishing, empiricism, encounter, espial, experimentation, exploration, exposition, exposure, feeling, hearing, identification, introduction, invention, learning, locating, location, origination, perception, revelation, sensing, sighting, strike, unearthing, verification |
| Antonyms: | loss, miss |
| Main Entry: | entrée |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | admittance |
| Synonyms: | access, adit, admission, connection, contact, debut, door, entrance, entry, importation, in, incoming, induction, ingress, introduction, open arms, open door, way |
| Antonyms: | blackballing, rejection |
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