Intro
/ˈɪntɹoʊ/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An introduction. informal
- 2 a brief introductory passage to a piece of popular music wordnet
- 3 The opening sequence at beginning of a film, television program, etc. informal
- 4 formally making a person known to another or to the public wordnet
- 5 A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
"If the rules specify that the DLLs' size will be added to the 64K limit, there's not a lot of space to code an intro."
Verb
- 1 To introduce. informal, transitive
Example
More examples"Sami made a lengthy intro to the video."
Etymology
Clipping of introduction, from Latin intrōductiō (“lead-in, introduction”) – the abbreviation removes the second part of the compound; the first part ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁énteros (“inner, what is inside”). The demoscene sense comes from the fact that they were originally prepended to pirated copies of computer games.