All 3 Uses of
intercept
in
David Copperfield
- I intercepted Jip.†
Chpt 31-33 *
- As there was something which had occurred to my mind, I said in reply: 'I could wish to know from this — creature,' I could not bring myself to utter any more conciliatory word, 'whether they intercepted a letter that was written to her from home, or whether he supposes that she received it.'†
Chpt 46-48
- He zealously undertook to do so, and to intercept any newspaper through which it might, without such precautions, reach him.†
Chpt 55-57
Definitions:
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(1)
(intercept) to stop, catch, or block the intended course of something or someone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In mathematical graphing, an intercept is a point at which a line intersects either the vertical or horizontal axis.