Both Uses of
intercept
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- I was intercepted by someone who knocked the breath from me—the chief of police.†
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- But before his line could tangle with mine, another whizzed out, and Shay intercepted the bird.†
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.