Definition of intercept

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Intercept (n.) A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves..

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Dashboard :: Dashboard (n.) A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard..
Picket :: Picket (n.) By extension, men appointed by a trades union, or other labor organization, to intercept outsiders, and prevent them from working for employers with whom the organization is at variance..
Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town..
Intercepted :: Intercepted (imp. & p. p.) of Intercep.
Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..
Interlope :: Interlope (v. i.) To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) A work thrown up to intercept an enfilade, or reverse fire, along exposed passage, or line of work..
Mare :: Mare (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare..
Intercipient :: Intercipient (a.) Intercepting; stopping.
Preventive :: Preventive (n.) That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..
Subnotation :: Subnormal (n.) That part of the axis of a curved line which is intercepted between the ordinate and the normal.
Forestall :: Forestall (v. t.) To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market..
Interceptive :: Interceptive (a.) Intercepting or tending to intercept.
Interclude :: Interclude (v. t.) To shut off or out from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to cut off; to interrupt..
Mist :: Mist (n.) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision..
Countermine :: Countermine (n.) An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Countermine :: Countermine (v. t.) To oppose by means of a countermine; to intercept with a countermine.
Intercipient :: Intercipient (n.) One who, or that which, intercepts or stops anything on the passage..
Intercepter :: Intercepter (n.) One who, or that which, intercepts..
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