Definitions for intercept

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intercept in·ter·cept

Spelling: [verb in-ter-sept; noun in-ter-sept]

IPA: /verb ˌɪn tərˈsɛpt; noun ˈɪn tərˌsɛpt/

Intercept is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 305 anagrams from letters in intercept (ceeinprtt).

Definitions for intercept

noun

1. an interception.
2. Mathematics. an intercepted segment of a line. (in a coordinate system) the distance from the origin to the point at which a curve or line intersects an axis.

verb (used with object)

1. to take, seize, or halt (someone or something on the way from one place to another); cut off from an intended destination:
2. to see or overhear (a message, transmission, etc., meant for another):
3. to stop or check (passage, travel, etc.):
4. Sports. to take possession of (a ball or puck) during an attempted pass by an opposing team.
5. to stop or interrupt the course, progress, or transmission of.
6. to destroy or disperse (enemy aircraft or a missile or missiles) in the air on the way to a target.
7. to stop the natural course of (light, water, etc.).
8. Mathematics. to mark off or include, as between two points or lines.
9. to intersect.
10. Obsolete. to prevent or cut off the operation or effect of.
11. Obsolete. to cut off from access, sight, etc.

Origin of intercept

1535-45; Latin interceptus past participle of intercipere, equivalent to inter- inter- + -cep- (combining form of cap-, stem of capere to take) + -tus past participl

Examples for intercept

And the New Yorker welcomed The intercept as part of an encouraging trend of proliferating public-interest journalism startups.

I know the Ambassador; if you do not wish to meet him, I will intercept him.

She must make that point and so intercept Hervey with a telegraphic message.

The fighters they spotted, three in number, did not try to intercept them.

The "grid" is connected to the aerial wire to intercept the radio waves.

“The intercept loses its editor in chief as First Look crumbles,” read a typical headline on the Mashable.com news site.

At an angle calculated to intercept the caravan, Kingozi set off down the hill.

Both left The Guardian last year to begin a news startup funded by Internet billionaire Pierre Omidyar called The intercept.

They intercept and diffuse, to some extent babysitting the possible aggressor until the disease of violent intent has passed.

In all fairness to Jay, he told The intercept that he never expected to be a major figure in Serial.