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# intercept

«intercept» in Mova's school dictionary: **To stop someone or something on the way and catch or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (intercept, intercepts, intercepted, intercepting); noun (an intercept, intercepts)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stop someone or something on the way and catch or block it before it gets where it was going: intercept a pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#m1)

2) To secretly catch messages meant for someone else: intercept a letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#m2)

3) (maths) An intercept is the point where a line or graph crosses an axis: the y-intercept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In sport (football, netball), history (codebreakers at Bletchley Park intercepted enemy messages), and maths graphs. Phrases: intercept a pass, intercepted messages, y-intercept.

### examples

- The defender intercepted the pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#x1)
- Codebreakers intercepted secret messages in the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#x2)
- The police intercepted the stolen car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#x3)
- The line y = 2x + 3 has a y-intercept of 3. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#x4)
- Find where the graph intercepts the x-axis. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#x5)
- The goalkeeper intercepted the cross. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#x6)
- But while looking for the truth, came the evil one, the father of lies, to intercept him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/#x7)

### note

Verb stress: in-ter-SEPT; noun stress: IN-ter-sept. Noun: interception. Maths: in y = mx + c, c is the y-intercept.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «intercept» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/intercept/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.