Crossword clues for intercept
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intercept \In`ter*cept"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intercepted; p. pr. & vb. n. Intercepting.] [L. interceptus, p. p. of intercipere to intercept; inter between + capere to take, seize: cf. F. intercepter. See Capable.]
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To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
God will shortly intercept your breath.
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To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
Who intercepts me in my expedition?
--Shak.We must meet first, and intercept his course.
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To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade.
While storms vindictive intercept the shore.
--Pope. (Math.) To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B.
To overhear or view (a communication or message intended for another), without hindering its passage; as, to intercept a telephone call.
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(Sports) To catch and take possession of (a ball passed between members of an opposing team); as, the back intercepted the pass and ran the ball back for a touchdown.
Syn: To cut off; stop; catch; seize; obstruct.
Intercept \In"ter*cept`\, n. (Math.) A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call. 2 (senseid en interception of a missile)An interception of a missile. 3 (context algebraic geometry English) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis. vb. (context transitive English) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
WordNet
n. the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
Wikipedia
Intercept may refer to:
- X-intercept, the point where a line crosses the x-axis
- Y-intercept, the point where a line crosses the y-axis
- Interception, a play in various forms of football
- The Mona Intercept, a 1980 thriller novel by Donald Hamilton
- Operation Intercept, an anti-drug measure announced by President Nixon
- Telephone tapping, the monitoring of telephone and Internet conversations by a third party
- Tax refund intercept
- Samsung Intercept (SPH-M910), an Android smartphone
- Visual Intercept, a Microsoft Windows based software defect tracking system
- Intermodulation Intercept Point, a measure of an electrical device's linearity
- Intercept message, a telephone recording informing the caller that the call cannot be completed
- The Intercept, an online news publication edited by Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill
Usage examples of "intercept".
Straight Arrow antitank weapons were on their way to intercept and kill forty-five tanks.
But SinoInd interceptors lay in wait at places like Kabul, Ashkhabad, and Isfahan, relying on visual intercept and Indian pilots flying the colors of Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan.
German station pumped it into the ether for the 5,000-mile leap to Tokyo, a new American intercept post at Asmara, in the former Italian colony of Eritrea bordering the Red Sea, picked it up.
Be advised that Alert Five aircraft, call sign Backstop, are airborne and on intercept course with Bravo.
However, Beller thought, there was still the possibility that the enemy might intercept this conversation.
They were out there every day, setting thirty-mile-long nets to intercept the migrators, and they were getting everything: tuna and billfish, mackerel and wahoos, sharks and bonitos and jacks and porpoises.
He intercepted several parties of Carpi, and other Germans, who were hastening to share the victory of their countrymen, intrusted the passes of the mountains to officers of approved valor and fidelity, repaired and strengthened the fortifications of the Danube, and exerted his utmost vigilance to oppose either the progress or the retreat of the Goths.
So that when he set out north from Seleuceia-on-Tigris to intercept us with his horse archers and his cataphracti, he also took thousands of camels loaded with spare arrows, and thousands of slaves to feed the arrows to the archers in an endless chain.
The NATO sub force trying to block the passage no longer had the SOSUS line to give them intercept vectors, nor Orions to pounce on the contacts that submarines could not reach.
Britain had not cracked the purple machine, but they had more in the way of cryptanalyzed intercepts than the United States, and this was the quid pro quo.
The backlogged Cuban analysts and cryptologists of B Group were only now putting out translations of messages intercepted weeks earlier.
And below, in eight columns, are the names of 152 military and civilian cryptologists, intercept operators, and analysts who have given their lives in the line of duty.
Eight days earlier, in a windowless blockhouse in West Germany, an NSA intercept operator assigned to monitor Czechoslovakian military air communications turned his large black frequency dial to 114.
Just like we had demothballed Indiantown Gap and C-rations and the space shuttles Metzger and the other Rocket Jocks flew to intercept Projectiles.
If I follow that order, the Deutsche are only too likely to intercept our transmission.