What's the difference between foist and introduce?

Foist


Definition:

  • (n.) A light and fast-sailing ship.
  • (v. t.) To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
  • (n.) A foister; a sharper.
  • (n.) A trick or fraud; a swindle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under the cover of this administration’s constant cloud of chaos – some deliberately generated by Trump, much of it foisted upon him by his incompetence and avarice – this shared agenda is being pursued with methodical and unblinking focus.
  • (2) Promoters of the bill in Uganda, which gained independence from Britain in 1962, appealed to populist notions of culture that frame homosexuality as an "un-African", alien behaviour foisted on the continent by western imperialists.
  • (3) The danger is that we foist such fiction on young readers because we are convinced it is "good for them", and we risk putting them off for life.
  • (4) Transitioning is the product of a fundamental aspect of our humanity – gender – being foisted upon us over and over again from the time of our birth in a manner inconsistent with our own experience of our genders.
  • (5) The methodological problems in applying this approach, however, may lead to foisting upon clinical observation preconceived paradigms of pathogenesis.
  • (6) It’s a raw deal for food producers, who need the supermarkets to reach the public, but who can’t afford the terms of business that the supermarkets foist on them.” The extent of these contributions has come into the spotlight this year after Tesco admitted it had found a £263m black hole in its accounts relating to the way it booked payments from suppliers.
  • (7) As a key barometer for the mood of the NHS, this is entirely understandable, especially in years when one set of changes after another seemed to loom ahead, waiting to be foisted on a service which could only wait and hope it survived.
  • (8) Meanwhile, Nick Clegg – talking tough after his mauling last week – has now signalled he thinks it folly to foist purse strings on those family doctors who are unwilling or unable to take them.
  • (9) We need not be satisfied with staffing arrangements and practices that, largely for reasons of expediency and the lack of other models, were inherited from other healthcare agencies or foisted on us by federal bureaucrats and third party payers.
  • (10) The calibre of player vying to accompany Pogba in the centre remains open to debate, as question marks of varying weights hang like cartoon anvils over Morgan Schneiderlin, Daley Blind, Marouane Fellaini, Ander Herrera and Michael Carrick, and, as Mourinho did not quite say this month , only a fool, or perhaps a recently deposed England manager, would attempt to foist a dwindling Wayne Rooney on United’s midfield.
  • (11) Fortunately, his attempt to foist his own rather ignorant and partial version of history on to the national curriculum was one of his many failures.
  • (12) But I'm not interested in anything else but foisting those sensibilities and writing books that concern the 21st-century.
  • (13) The vicar was a lovely man, but his wife obviously didn't want refugees foisted on her.
  • (14) The very people – the industrial millers and bakers – who foisted this problem on us are using it to make money in another sphere.” Rather than buying highly processed gluten-free bread products, Whitley advises finding a bakery “who you absolutely know is making their bread with proper fermentation” or learn to make your own.
  • (15) But these people have been written out of history: to listen to the independence debate, or to how Scotland has talked about itself since the early 80s, you might imagine that her governments – with their southern English, sharp-edged, supposedly fundamentally foreign ways – were foisted on Scotland entirely through English votes.
  • (16) Historians will one day describe the way our streets were covered with a flavoured polymer that we would suck and chew before spitting it out on to the pavement, slyly bunging it under a desk, or foisting it under a chair.
  • (17) I had been trapped in the politically correct negative view of the relay, the view that the cult of the torch was an invented tradition foisted on the Olympics by the Nazis in 1936 and that the 2012 relay was a tacky stunt for drumming up phoney enthusiasm for the London Games from an otherwise indifferent public.
  • (18) The central monument in the square was turned into a Maypole and a tent was foisted on top of it.
  • (19) That's why I don't send them to state school" – is offered as if it hasn't even occurred to her that she, like all parents, foists her ethics on to her children every single day, hoping they will grow up to live by them.
  • (20) Her argument about private schooling – "I don't think my children should have my feelings foisted upon them, and have to live with the consequences.

Introduce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.
  • (v. t.) To put (something into a place); to insert; as, to introduce the finger, or a probe.
  • (v. t.) To lead to and make known by formal announcement or recommendation; hence, to cause to be acquainted; as, to introduce strangers; to introduce one person to another.
  • (v. t.) To bring into notice, practice, cultivation, or use; as, to introduce a new fashion, method, or plant.
  • (v. t.) To produce; to cause to exist; to induce.
  • (v. t.) To open to notice; to begin; to present; as, he introduced the subject with a long preface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (2) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
  • (3) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
  • (4) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
  • (5) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
  • (6) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
  • (7) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
  • (8) These lizards were introduced into Bermuda from Jamaica in 1905.
  • (9) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
  • (10) Control measures were introduced rapidly, effectively stopping the epidemic.
  • (11) In all patients a Tenckoff's catheter for peritoneal dialysis was introduced and peritoneal effusion extracted and measured.
  • (12) The findings reported here suggest that if women nurse exclusively for the 1st half year, maintaining night nursing after introducing supplements is important.
  • (13) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
  • (14) In Experiment II, identification training, consisting of instructions, praise, feedback, and practice was introduced after baseline.
  • (15) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
  • (16) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (17) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
  • (18) In addition, a new dosage concepts has been introduced on the basis of the effective dose on the lines of the recommendations by the IRCP; as a result, the definitions of radiation protection areas and of dosage limit values had to be revised and reworded.
  • (19) The prime minister’s spokeswoman said: “We think this can be done in line with EU and international law and it is important it is introduced and set up in the right way.
  • (20) Among the epileptic patients investigated by the stereotactic E. E. G. (Talairach) whose electrodes were introduced at or around the auditory cortex (Area 41, 42), the topography of the auditory responses by the electrical bipolar stimulation and that of the auditory evoked potential by the bilateral click sound stimulation were studied in relation to the ac--pc line (Talairach).