misintroduce

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ introduce

Verb

misintroduce (third-person singular simple present misintroduces, present participle misintroducing, simple past and past participle misintroduced)

1. To name or describe (someone or something) incorrectly when making an introduction; to present (someone or something) by the wrong name or description.
   • 1987, Lincoln Constance, Versatile Berkeley Botanist, page 211:

     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.

   • 1994, Abstracts in Anthropology - Volume 67, Issue 3, page 190:

     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.

   • 2004, John Donne Journal: Studies in the Age of Donne, page 161:

     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.

   • 2014, Verma Shalini, Business Communication, page 421:

     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.

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.
   • 1973, Datus M. Hammond, Peter L. Long, The Coccidia: Eimeria, Isospora, Toxoplasma, and Related Genera, page 222:

     Bedrnik ( 1970a ) obtained greater development of E . tenella merozoites after using inocula containing “misintroduced" cells from the cecum of chickens.

   • 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:

     Thus, if they are misintroduced during specimen preparation, misinterpretation will result.

   • 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:

     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].

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