Borrowed fromLatininterceptum, past participle ofintercipiō.
- Verb
- Noun
intercept (third-person singular simple presentintercepts,present participleintercepting,simple past and past participleintercepted)
- (transitive) Tostop,deflect ordivert (something inprogress ormotion).
The policeintercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.
1749, [John Cleland], “[Letter the First]”, inMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], volume I, London:[…][Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton andRalph Griffiths] […],→OCLC,page67:[T]he emotion grew ſo violent that it almostintercepted my reſpiration.
1791, Thomas Paine,Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution, London:[…] J. S. Jordan, […],→OCLC,page129: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 tointercept finally, and cut off the deſcent.
1976 December 18, Allen Young, “Speaking Out”, inGay Community News, volume 4, number25, page 9: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 beintercepted and opened.
- (transitive,sports) To gainpossession of (the ball) in aball game.
- (transitive,American football) Of a defensive player: to steal apass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
- (transitive,mathematics) To take or comprehend between.
- 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.
to stop, deflect or divert
- Arabic:اِعْتَرَضَ(iʕtaraḍa)
- Bulgarian:преграждам (bg)(pregraždam),запречвам (bg)(zaprečvam)
- Catalan:interceptar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:阻止 (zh)(zǔzhǐ)
- Dutch:onderscheppen (nl)
- Finnish:pysäyttää (fi),torjua (fi),katkaista (fi),keskeyttää (fi)
- French:intercepter (fr)
- German:abfangen (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek:ἀπολαμβάνω(apolambánō),ἀπολαμβάνω(apolambánō)
- Hebrew:יירט
- Japanese:阻止する (ja)(そしする, soshi suru)
- Latin:intercipiō
- Maori:rorehape,kokoti,haukoti,komutu
- Polish:przechwycić pf
- Portuguese:interceptar (pt)
- Quechua:hark'ay
- Russian:заде́рживать (ru) impf(zadérživatʹ),задержа́ть (ru) pf(zaderžátʹ),перехва́тывать (ru) impf(perexvátyvatʹ),перехвати́ть (ru) pf(perexvatítʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian:prèsresti (sh) pf,prèsretati (sh) impf
- Thai:สกัดกั้น
- Ukrainian:перехо́плювати impf(perexópljuvaty),перехопи́ти pf(perexopýty)
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Translations to be checked
intercept (pluralintercepts)
- Aninterception of aradiobroadcast or atelephone call.
- An interception of amissile.
- (algebraic geometry) Thecoordinate of thepoint at which acurveintersects anaxis.
- theyintercept ―point at which a line crosses they-axis
2012, Alice Kaseberg, Greg Cripe, Peter Wildman,Introductory Algebra: Everyday Explorations,page278:Because the horizontal-axisintercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axisintercept occurs when x=0, we can find theintercepts algebraically.
- (marketing) A form ofmarket research whereconsumers are intercepted and interviewed in aretailstore ormall.
interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call
interception of a missile
coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis
- (an interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call):bug
