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Definition: Introductory |
IntroductoryAdjective1. Serving to open or begin; "began the slide show with some introductory remarks". 2. Serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course". 3. Serving as an introduction or preface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "introductory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Introductory \In`tro*duc"to*ry\, adjective. [Latin expression itroductorius: compare to the French expression introductoire.]. (references) |
Synonyms: IntroductorySynonyms: basic (adj), prefatorial (adj), prefatory (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beginning | Adjective: beginning; Verb: initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive, introductory, incipient; proemial, inaugural; inchoate, inchoative; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial; primeval, primitive, primordial; (old); aboriginal; natal, nascent. |
Precedence | Adjective: preceding; Verb: precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior; before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory. |
Precursor | Adjective: precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious; proemial, introductory, prefatory, prodromous, inaugural, preliminary; precedent; (prior). |
Priority | Adjective: prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; aforementioned, before-mentioned, abovementioned; aforesaid, said; introductory; (precursory). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Introductory |
| English words defined with "introductory": basic ♦ emcee, Exordial, Exordium ♦ foreword ♦ host ♦ intro, Introductive, Isagogical ♦ lead, lead-in ♦ master of ceremonies ♦ pass, passing, Preambulary, Preambulatory, Precursive, preface, Preludial, Prelusive, Prelusory, primer, Proemial, Prolegomenary, Prolegomenon, prolusion, Propaedeutical, Protactic, Protasis, Protatic ♦ qualifying ♦ retrospection ♦ speller. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "introductory": 6.001 ♦ Appetitive Behavior ♦ Brillouin instability ♦ COMmon Algorithmic Language ♦ feature shock ♦ Ion Implantation ♦ Laser Wakefield Accelerator ♦ mailing package, Microwave Plasma Source ♦ préface ♦ Sather-K ♦ That ♦ university training course for secondary school teachers ♦ welcome cocktail, welcome frame, welcome page. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "introductory": Proemial. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Jenkins' Market, business at 3008 Q St. N.W. Crisco introductory offer in Jenkins' Market. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In the introductory years of this technology in Colombia, the most likely clients will be telephone carriers, broadcasting companies, telecommunications links (VAS), and the six major TV cable companies. (references) | |
The Australian Dental Association is currently developing a relationship with a practice management software provider and is offering members the opportunity to consider the software via various introductory and start-up kits. The Association is also arranging information sessions and training in the system. (references) | ||
Economic History | Czech Rep | Executives may wish to combine their first visits to Prague with introductory visits to other nearby EU accession countries, such as Slovakia, Poland, or Hungary. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Some firms have successfully offered special, low introductory prices on consumer products to gain a foothold in the market and develop customer awareness and loyalty. (references) | |
Bulgaria | OPIC began offering currency inconvertibility coverage in January 1999. During the introductory period, the amount of currency inconvertibility coverage available is limited. (references) | |
Trade | Egypt | Customs officials suspect under-invoicing when legitimate sellers low-ball introductory prices of samples, then send larger quantities at higher prices; offer one price for a few items, and a quantity discount for subsequent shipments; or introduce a new product at a basic cost much cheaper than similar products previously imported from other sources. (references) |
Travel | Vietnam | A first meeting tends to be formal and viewed as an introductory session. (references) |
Vietnam | Meetings generally begin with the principal guest making introductory remarks. (references) | |
Women | Czech Republic | The Police Academy and secondary police schools have introduced, into both the introductory and continuing education curriculums, instructional material to improve the identification and investigation of domestic violence and sexual abuse cases and to sensitize police to the treatment of victims. (references) |
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| "Introductory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.75% of the time. "Introductory" is used about 558 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.75% | 551 | 11,300 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.25% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 558 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "introductory": introductory course ♦ introductory offer ♦ introductory part ♦ introductory speech. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "introductory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تمهيدي (draft, initiative, precursory, prefatory, preliminary, preparatory, propaedeutic, sketchy), تقدمي (advanced, liberal, progressive), إستهلالي (capital, inceptive, prefatory). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уводен (initiative, initiatory, precursory, prefatory, prelusive, preparatory, propaedeutic), встъпителен (entrance, exordial, inaugural, opening, precursory, prefatory, prelusive, preparatory), начален (auroral, elemental, embryo, inceptive, incipient, infantile, initial, initiative, initiatory, opening, original), предварителен (advance, forward, precursory, preliminary, premonitory, preparative, preparatory, tentative). (various references) | |
Chinese | 介绍 (introduce, Introduced, Introducing, INTRODUCTION, Presentation). (various references) | |
Czech | přípravný (preliminary, preparative), úvodní (opening, prefatory). (various references) | |
Danish | indledende noter (introductory notes), planer for primærundervisning (introductory plan for primary education). (various references) | |
Dutch | inleidend. (various references) | |
Farsi | معارفه ای , وابسته به مقدمه , دیباچه ای . (various references) | |
Finnish | tutustumistarjous (introductory offer). (various references) | |
French | préliminaire. (various references) | |
German | einleitend (incipient, initiatively, initiatory, introductorily, prefacing, prefatory, preliminary, preluding), einführend (elementary, inaugurating, initiating, introducing, spearheading, superinducing). (various references) | |
Greek | προεισαγωγικόσ (prefatory), προοιμιακόσ (prefatory), εισαγωγικόσ (initiatory, originative, prefatorial, prelusive, prelusory), εισαγωγικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצי' (exhibitor, performer), אק"מאי, "ק"מי (foremost). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bevezetõ (exordial, initiative, lead in, precursory, prefatory, preliminary, prelusive, prolegomena, prolog, prologue, propaedeutic), bevezető (initiative, intro-, preliminary). (various references) | |
Italian | introduttivo (inceptive, prefatory, preliminary), preliminare (preliminary, preparatory). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 凡例 (explanatory notes, introductory remarks). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しょうかいぶ" (introductory essay), まえ"うじょう (introductory remarks), にゅうも"テキス (introductory text), にゅうも"しょ (introductory book, manual, primer), は"れい (counterexample, example, explanatory notes, introductory remarks, precedent). (various references) | |
Korean | 서 . (various references) | |
Manx | goan toshee (introductory words). (various references) | |
Norwegian | innledende. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | introductoryay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | introdutório (prelusive, prep, preparatory). (various references) | |
Romanian | introductiv (initiative, initiatory, introductive), preliminar (initiative, initiatory, preliminary, preparative, tentative). (various references) | |
Russian | вступительный (admission, exordial, inaugural, initiation, opening, prefatory, prelusive), вводный (exordial, parenthetic, parenthetical, prefatory), предварительный (anticipatory, interlocutory, precursory, prefatory, preliminary, pre-planned). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uvodni (initiatory, opening, precursory, prelusive). (various references) | |
Spanish | introductorio (exordial, induction). (various references) | |
Swedish | introduktions-, introduktions, inlednings- (initiatory, opening), inledande (initial, initiative, initiatory, opening, precursory, prefatory, prelusive). (various references) | |
Turkish | tanıtıcı, giriş niteliğinde olan. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вступний (exordial, inaugural, inductive, initiative, opening, prefatorial, prefatory, prelusive, prodromic). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | để giới thiệu mở đầu (introductive). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhagarweiniol, arweiniol (leading). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "introductory" (pronounced i'ntrudu"kterē or i'ntrōdu"kterē) |
| 4 | -k t er ē | contradictory, directory, factory, olfactory, perfunctory, rectory, refractory, satisfactory, trajectory, unsatisfactory, valedictory, victory. |
| 3 | -t er ē | adultery, alimentary, artery, battery, blustery, buttery, complimentary, coterie, jittery, documentary, eatery, effrontery, flattery, glittery, history, lottery, mastery, mystery, notary, parliamentary, peremptory, pottery, premonitory, protohistory, rotary, rudimentary, sedimentary, splintery, supplementary, testamentary, upholstery, watery. |
| 4 | -k t er ē | contradictory, directory, factory, olfactory, perfunctory, rectory, refractory, satisfactory, trajectory, unsatisfactory, valedictory, victory. |
| 3 | -t er ē | adultery, alimentary, artery, battery, blustery, buttery, complimentary, coterie, jittery, documentary, eatery, effrontery, flattery, glittery, history, lottery, mastery, mystery, notary, parliamentary, peremptory, pottery, premonitory, protohistory, rotary, rudimentary, sedimentary, splintery, supplementary, testamentary, upholstery, watery. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t-u-y" | |
-2 letters: orotundity. | |
-3 letters: rotundity. | |
-4 letters: corduroy, cryotron, inductor, noctuoid. | |
-5 letters: conduit, contort, contour, cornuto, corrody, cottony, country, crittur, crouton, crudity, noctuid, orotund, ridotto, ruction, tortoni, tricorn, tyronic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-n-o-o-r-r-t-t-u-y" | |
+2 letters: introductorily. | |
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