All 5 Uses of
intercept
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I saw your vessel, and fearful of being left to perish on the desolate island, I swam off on a piece of wreckage to try and intercept your course.†
Chpt 22-23 *
- They were within fifteen miles of Monte Cristo when the sun began to set behind Corsica, whose mountains appeared against the sky, showing their rugged peaks in bold relief; this mass of rock, like the giant Adamastor, rose dead ahead, a formidable barrier, and intercepting the light that gilded its massive peaks so that the voyagers were in shadow.†
Chpt 31-32
- Well, I have not intercepted your confidence, and yet I know all that as well as you, and I have no conscientious scruples.†
Chpt 93-94
- Do not play with the thunderbolt they have laid aside for a moment, but which they can take up again instantly, if you attempt to intercept their movements.†
Chpt 107-108
- Can I have been intercepted by French telegrams to the pontifical authorities?†
Chpt 113-114
Definitions:
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(1)
(intercept) to stop or catch someone or something in route
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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.