What's the difference between introduce and prologue?

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).

Prologue


Definition:

  • (n.) The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance
  • (n.) One who delivers a prologue.
  • (v. t.) To introduce with a formal preface, or prologue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The organisers are expecting 3 million people to line Yorkshire's highways and byways for the two stages – 2 million more than turned out for the Prologue of the 2007 tour, a time trial around London.
  • (2) Many of the answers are contained in the first words that Rylance spoke, in the prologue to Henry V .
  • (3) After a short prologue, where it's established that a tall man and a young boy survive whatever it is we're about to read (and end up in the far sunnier climes of Mexico), we meet the town itself.
  • (4) As Motion's prologue makes clear, this is a "found poem" – the literary equivalent of the objet trouvé (did Damien Hirst "make" that sheep he dunked in formaldehyde?
  • (5) In her prologue, Moran bemoans the fact that the women's revolution "had somehow shrunk down into a couple of increasingly small arguments, carried out between a couple of dozen feminist academics, in books that only feminist academics would read".
  • (6) The development of hospital and health care, the evolution of medical and pharmaceutical sciences, and the growth of pharmacy as a profession are described as prologue to the development of hospital pharmacy.
  • (7) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian What is Shakespeare's prologue but a prescription for avant garde theatre?
  • (8) A likely prologue for Liby's case came in April 2011, when US special operations forces captured Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame off the Somali coast.
  • (9) The physician information comes from Prologue's data base of more than 10,000 participating physicians in more than 45 specialties.
  • (10) A prologue on science and statistics focuses attention on the role of statistics in science.
  • (11) In the book’s prologue, Aristegui expresses disappointment with the owners of MVS Radio – the Vargas family – and says they suffered a “moral collapse” in agreeing to fire her.
  • (12) This prologue to a symposium of research studies on motor mechanisms is a general commentary by a clinical neurologist.
  • (13) "Like all children of divorce," her poignant prologue reads, "I want to see my parents back together."
  • (14) A likely prologue for Liby's case came in April 2011, when US special operations forces captured Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame off the Somali coast, and kept him in the brig of the USS Boxer for nearly three months of interrogation before the navy took him to the southern district of New York to face terrorism charges.
  • (15) The reader already knows more about this plot than Kenton does, because in the prologue we witness a gathering of the senior conspirators: a meeting of the board of the Pan-Eurasian Petroleum Company in the City of London.
  • (16) Click here to watch video The first minute is very slow and dark, a zen prologue of slow-evolving patterns.
  • (17) It was the prologue of the second world war; it generated a dictatorship that lasted almost 40 years and its effects continue into our times.
  • (18) This will be the fourth time since 2008 that the race has dispensed with the traditional prologue time trial, and on paper at least it should produce the classic scenario of an early breakaway caught as the finish approaches, offering Mark Cavendish a chance to win in the city which, by happy coincidence, is where his mother lives.
  • (19) There is a tendency to believe the past is prologue because former first lady Hillary Clinton has been such a big political figure, but I don’t think that’s the case.” Obama has become adept at using media appearances – most memorably James Corden’s carpool karaoke – to promote worthy causes to mass audiences.
  • (20) The lawsuit against Penguin and Arestegui, filed by the owners of MVS Radio on 29 May, demands the withdrawal of all copies of the book, a public apology and the removal of the book’s current prologue from any future editions.