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Intro vs Intron - What's the difference?

intro | intron |

As nouns the difference between intro and intron

is that intro is short form of introduction while intron is (label) (portion of a split gene that is included in pre-rna transcripts but is removed during rna processing).

As a verb intro

is (informal|transitive) to introduce.

intro

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Short form of introduction.
  • (demoscene) A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
  • * 1999 , "brainpower / digital artists", Win32 demos'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos )
    • 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 .
  • * 2005 , Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1
    • Games, demos, intros . They were the same, this was the scene. The trend was that you cracked and made demos and intros.

    Antonyms

    * outro

    Hyponyms

    * (small audiovisual demo) , cracktro, invitro

    Anagrams

    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (informal) To introduce.
    • ----

    intron

    English

    (wikipedia intron)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (genetics) A portion of a split gene that is included in pre-RNA transcripts but is removed during RNA processing and rapidly degraded.
  • *1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 138:
  • *:It is a medium-sized gene, then, interrupted by five longish introns .