intercept
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
algebraic-geometry
ball-games
business
football
games
geometry
hobbies
lifestyle
marketing
mathematics
sciences
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipiō.
Inflected forms:
form: intercepts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intercepting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: intercept
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: intercept
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: intercept
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: interceptest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: interceptedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: intercepts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intercepteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: intercept
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: intercept
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: intercept
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: intercepting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intercepted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intercepts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.
[T]he emotion grew ſo violent that it almost intercepted my reſpiration.
The rights of men in ſociety, are neither deviſeable, nor transferable, nor annihilable, but are deſcendable only; and it is not in the power of any generation to intercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
I must admit to being genuinely shocked when I saw those letters in my file. I always suspected that mail was monitored, but it never occurred to me that mail would be intercepted and opened.
gloss: To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take or comprehend between.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To perform an aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down.
pos: verb
gloss: An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
pos: noun
gloss: An interception of a missile.
pos: noun
gloss: The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
pos: noun
examples: the y intercept
Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.
gloss: A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.
pos: noun
Derived words: interceptable
interception
interceptional
interceptive
unintercepted
interceptor
intercept theorem
rotary-wing intercept
x-intercept
y-intercept
z-intercept
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِعْتَرَضَ
roman: iʕtaraḍa
lang: Bulgarian
word: пресичам
roman: presičam
lang: Catalan
word: interceptar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 截奪 /截夺
roman: jiéduó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 搶截 /抢截
roman: qiǎngjié
lang: Dutch
word: onderscheppen
lang: Finnish
word: siepata
lang: Finnish
word: riistää
lang: French
word: intercepter
lang: German
word: abfangen
lang: Japanese
word: 奪う
roman: ubau
lang: Polish
word: przechwycić
lang: Portuguese
word: interceptar
lang: Russian
word: перехва́тывать
roman: perexvátyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: перехвати́ть
roman: perexvatítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: interceptar
lang: Spanish
word: interrumpir