Difference between Introduce and Insert

What is the difference between Introduce and Insert?

Introduce as a verb is to cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else). while Insert as a verb is to put in between or into.

Introduce

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else). To make (something or someone) known by formal announcement or recommendation. To add (something) to a system, a mixture, or a container. To bring (something) into practice.

Example sentence: It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathematical constructs from the empirical data. If this were the whole truth, we should, when entering into a new field, introduce only such quantities as can directly be observed, and formulate natural laws only by means of these quantities.

Insert

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To put in between or into.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An image inserted into text.A promotional leaflet inserted into a magazine or newspaper.

Example sentence: I don't read anything electronically. I don't write electronically, either - except e-mails to my family and friends. I write in longhand. I have always written first drafts by hand, but I used to write subsequent drafts and insert pages on a typewriter.

We hope you now know whether to use Introduce or Insert in your sentence.

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