All 3 Uses of
intercept
in
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
- Well, I was afraid Dad would get mad at me for not telling her we didn't want them, so I started intercepting them.†
p. 121.9
- So I told him about my dad and the eggs and salmonella and how I'd been intercepting eggs for nearly two years.†
p. 127.3 *
- He kept trying to come over and talk to me, but either he'd get intercepted by a teacher or I'd dash away from him before he had a chance to say anything.†
p. 205.5
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.