Definition

1. Verb:
   • To formally admit or install someone into an office, organization, or group, often with a ceremony or ritual. This is the most common meaning, involving a formal process of entry or initiation.
   • To introduce someone to a new area of knowledge, skill, or experience. This meaning focuses on the initial teaching or introduction to a complex field or practice.
   • (Physics/Electrical Engineering) To produce an electric current or magnetic effect by induction. This is a specialized technical meaning.

Usage and Examples

• Formal Admission or Installation:
  • The new members were inducted into the hall of fame during a gala dinner.
  • A committee was formed to induct the new chairman of the board.
• Introduction to Knowledge or Practice:
  • The senior scientist will induct the new recruits into the secrets of the laboratory.
  • The training program is designed to induct employees into the company's culture.
• Technical/Physics Context:
  • The coil can induct a current in the adjacent circuit without any physical connection.

Advanced Usage

• "to induct someone into something": This is the standard prepositional phrase used with the verb.
  • He was inducted into the military with an oath.
  • The ceremony inducted her into the order of knights.

Variants and Related Words

• Induction (n): The action or process of inducting someone or something.
  • The induction ceremony was held last week.
  • Magnetic induction is a fundamental principle.
• Inductive (adj): Relating to or employing logical induction or electromagnetic induction.
  • She used inductive reasoning to form her hypothesis.
• Inductee (n): A person who is being or has been inducted.
  • The newest inductees received their badges.

Synonyms

• Install: To place formally in an office or position.
• Initiate: To admit someone into a secret or obscure society or knowledge, often with rites.
• Introduce: To bring someone into first acquaintance with a subject or skill.
• Enroll: To enter or register on a list, especially as a member.

Antonyms

• Expel: To force someone to leave an organization or place.
• Oust: To remove from a position of power or job.
• Exclude: To deny someone access to a group or place.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Induct into office: To formally install someone into a governmental or official position.
  • The mayor will be inducted into office next Monday.
• Induction ceremony: A formal event held to admit new members.
  • All new students must attend the induction ceremony.

Verb

1. introduce or initiate
   • The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession
2. produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes
3. admit as a member
   • We were inducted into the honor society
4. accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite
   • African men are initiated when they reach puberty
5. place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
   • there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy