different between intercept vs interject

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interceptum, past participle of intercipi?.

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?nt?s?pt', IPA^(key): /?nt??s?pt/
• (US) enPR: ?nt?rs?pt', IPA^(key): /?nt??s?pt/

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n't?s?pt, IPA^(key): /??nt?s?pt/
• (US) enPR: ?n't?rs?pt, IPA^(key): /??nt?s?pt/
• Rhymes: -?pt

Verb

intercept (third-person singular simple present intercepts, present participle intercepting, simple past and past participle intercepted)

1. (transitive) To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
2. (transitive, sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game
   1. (transitive, American football) Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.
3. (transitive, mathematics) To take or comprehend between.

Translations

Noun

intercept (plural intercepts)

1. An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.
3. An interception of a missile.
4. (algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.
   • 2012, Alice Kaseberg, Greg Cripe, Peter Wildman, Introductory Algebra: Everyday Explorations, page 278

     Because the horizontal-axis intercept occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis intercept occurs when x=0, we can find the intercepts algebraically.

5. (marketing) A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall.

Derived terms

• interceptor

Translations

See also

• (an interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call): bug

English

Etymology

From Latin interiectus, perfect passive participle of interici? (“place between”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??kt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n.t??d??kt/
• Rhymes: -?kt

Verb

interject (third-person singular simple present interjects, present participle interjecting, simple past and past participle interjected)

1. (transitive) To insert something between other things.
2. (transitive) To say as an interruption or aside.
   • 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, pp. 474-475,^[1]

     He roared with prodigious violence against George the Second. When he ceased, Moody interjected, in an Irish tone, and with a comick look, “Ah! poor George the Second.”

   • 1848, Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter 24,^[2]

     ‘Please, sir, Richard says one of the horses has got a very bad cold, and he thinks, sir, if you could make it convenient to go the day after to-morrow, instead of to-morrow, he could physic it to-day, so as—’

     ‘Confound his impudence!’ interjected the master.

   • 1934, Olaf Stapledon, “East is West” in Sam Moskowitz (ed.), Far Future Calling: Uncollected Science Fiction and Fantasies of Olaf Stapledon, 1979,^[3]

     As I listened I interjected an occasional sentence of Japanese translation for our guests.

   • 2000, Julian Barnes, “The Hardest Test: Drugs and the Tour de France” in The New Yorker, 21 August, 2000,^[4]

     Virenque, in a panicky mishearing, replied, “Me a dealer? No, I am not a dealer.” […] Whereupon Virenque’s lawyer interjected, “No, Richard, the judge said leader. It’s not an offense to be a leader.”

3. (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.

Synonyms

• (to insert between other things): insert
• (to interpose oneself): interpose, intervene

Related terms

• interjection

Translations