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misintroduce en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + introduce.

Meanings

1. To name or describe (someone or something) incorrectly when making an introduction; to present (someone or something) by the wrong name or description.
   • If you misintroduce someone, you could try saying something like, 'I apologize....He/she is Mr/Ms Thakur'. Remember that it is better to misintroduce someone than not to introduce at all. 2014, Verma Shalini, Business Communication, page 421:
   • Archaeology has for years been misintroduced as a treasure-hunting, collecting, object-oriented entertainment. As a result, the public has become so object oriented and its misconceptions about the real business of archaeology are now so twisted by this object orientation, that deprogramming and behavior change teaching are now necessary. 1994, Abstracts in Anthropology - Volume 67, Issue 3, page 190:
   • The first thing I did was to misintroduce an engineer to somebody else. I never did get all the engineers straightened out — they weren't in L & S. 1987, Lincoln Constance, Versatile Berkeley Botanist, page 211:
   • Teachers of Donne's poetry should take notice of the play, not simply because it features a formidable seventeenth-century scholar as its protagonist, but because it misintroduces the Holy Sonnets — and by extension, John Donne to audiences who might not have been familiar with them. 2004, John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne, page 161:
2. To insert (something) incorrectly to a system or environment; to insert (something) that does not belong there or to insert it in the wrong way.
   • Bedrnik ( 1970a ) obtained greater development of E . tenella merozoites after using inocula containing “misintroduced" cells from the cecum of chickens. 1973, Datus M. Hammond, Peter L. Long, The Coccidia: Eimeria, Isospora, Toxoplasma, and Related Genera, page 222:
   • There was no information on whether the catheter was misintroduced during cannulation or displaced in the course of nursing care, due to its poor fixation [13]. 2011 July-September, Joanna Bothur-Nowacka, Justyna Czech-Kowalska, Dariusz Gruszfeld, Monika Nowakowska-Rysz, Andrzej Kościesza, Dariusz Polnik, Anna Dobrzańska, “Complications of umbilical vein catherisation. Case Report”, in Polish Journal of Radiology, volume 76, number 3:
   • Thus, if they are misintroduced during specimen preparation, misinterpretation will result. 1974, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Takemi Nakamura, Ken’ichi Shimizu, “Electron Microscopy Study of Stress-induced Acicular β1′ Martensite in Cu–Al–Ni Alloy”, in Transaction of the Japan Institue of Metals, volume 15, number 3:

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