intron.
colloquial.
= introduction n.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > introduction
introduction1766
knock-down1865
intro1923
society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > introduction or opening
overtc1450
preamble1611
intrada1664
flourish1706
entry1728
alap1834
introduction1880
intro1923
pickup1928
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > [noun] > a) preparation(s) > a preliminary action or step
introductionc1386
deductiona1535
induction?1544
preamble1548
flourish1552
preludium1563
primordium1577
preparativec1580
exordium1581
introit1583
foregoinga1586
prologuea1586
preface1589
prelusion1597
proem1598
prolusion1601
introductory1646
preliminary1656
prelimination1667
flourishing1687
little go1842
preluding1858
foreword1888
prelim1891
prelimen1898
run-in1900
opening gambit1911
prolegomenon1926
lead-in1928
pipe-openera1936
lead-up1953
intro1964
1923 Daily Mail 17 July 12 (advt.) It's extraordinary the number of fellows who..write to us..thanking me for the intro!
1928 Melody Maker Feb. 195/3 The sixth and eighth bars of the intro. worried me a little.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. iii. ii. 515 You'd never see him if you hadn't an intro, but when you do see him, 's'business.
1949 L. Feather Inside Be-bop ii. 17 The intro and coda of Ko-ko.
1964 Listener 17 Dec. 987/2 The intro film's symbols..appear to be so dully strange that they induce an uneasy feeling.
1968 Blues Unlimited Dec. 6 Al Smith compered. Not very imaginatively, in fact he started off two intros word for word the same.
1973 J. Jones Touch of Danger xx. 116 Fred Tarkoff..gave me a letter of intro to her.
1974 Melody Maker 13 Apr. 50/2 There are guitar intros and solos.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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