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intersect
English
Etymology
From Latin intersecare (“to cut between, cut off”), from inter (“between”) + secare (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?nt??s?kt/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?nt??s?kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
intersect (third-person singular simple present intersects, present participle intersecting, simple past and past participle intersected)
- (transitive, intransitive) To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
- Parallel lines don't intersect.
- Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
- Lands intersected by a narrow frith / Abhor each other.
- (mathematics) Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
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Further reading
- intersect in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- intersect in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- intersect at OneLook Dictionary Search
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interject
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)
- (transitive) To insert something between other things.
- (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.”
- 1791, James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, Volume I, pp. 474-475,[1]
- (intransitive) To interpose oneself; to intervene.
Synonyms
- (to insert between other things): insert
- (to interpose oneself): interpose, intervene
Related terms
- interjection
Translations
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