What's the difference between broadcast and intercept?

Broadcast


Definition:

  • (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
  • (a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
  • (a.) Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills, or rows.
  • (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing, or news from the press.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
  • (2) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (3) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
  • (4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (5) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
  • (6) He continued: "I don't think there could be a better move for me: to retire from one of the world's best football clubs at the end of the season and then join one of the world's best broadcasters.
  • (7) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (8) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
  • (9) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
  • (10) Only "a tiny minority" of countries presently control space technologies, which play a major role in everything from broadcasting to weather forecasting, agriculture, health and environmental monitoring, the document notes.
  • (11) To which Salim replies: “But you do.” When such intimacy between two men can be broadcast to an audience of millions, we are shown that the ways of portraying gay sex can be reframed.
  • (12) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
  • (13) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
  • (14) Cable news channels like Fox News and CNN carried the address, and some of the networks carried it on their digital platforms, but a network insider told Politico on Thursday the speech’s content was too “overtly political” to broadcast.
  • (15) It is trying to position Sky Arts as the country's premier cultural channel as it attempts to demonstrate to politicians and regulators that it can produce programming that was once the preserve of public service broadcasters like the BBC.
  • (16) The video is done in the style of a news report for Russia's Kremlin-controlled Channel One channel, which normally praises Putin in every broadcast.
  • (17) The old BBC Trust will be abolished and regulation will largely pass to Ofcom, which regulates commercial broadcasters.
  • (18) But DAB radio, the likely broadcast replacement for analogue AM and FM in the digital-only age, saw its share of listening drop, to 15.3% from 15.8% in the second quarter of 2010.
  • (19) The allegations come weeks after Top Gear executives expressed regret over a remark made by Clarkson on the show's Burma special, broadcast in March.
  • (20) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.

Intercept


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
  • (v. t.) To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
  • (v. t.) To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade.
  • (v. t.) To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B.
  • (n.) A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Rivers intercepted on a slightly less deep heave in Washington!
  • (2) Now we need parliament to step in to fix what should have been fixed a long time ago.” In relation to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the IPT found that “email communications ... were lawfully and proportionately intercepted and accessed ...
  • (3) However, the intercept of the curve continued to increase in that region, as expected, because of the additional paramagnetic ions.
  • (4) Even as those words were being published, lawyers and senior executives from News International's subsidiary News Group were preparing to run to court to gag Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, who was suing the News of the World for its undisclosed involvement in the illegal interception of messages left on his mobile phone.
  • (5) The relationship between bile flow and bile salt output obtained during the administration of sodium taurocholate at stepwise-increasing rates indicated that bile salt-independent bile flow (y-intercept) was diminished by 37% in SZ-treated rats.
  • (6) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
  • (7) The effect of GSH is attributed to dioxetane interception and subsequent glutathione peroxidation generating 1O2 by electron transfer from the superoxide anion radical to a peroxysulfenyl radical.
  • (8) It is hence impossible to wiretap, intercept or crack the information transmitted through it,” Xinhua reported after Tuesday’s launch.
  • (9) It was found that the regression line in the "obese patient" group was displaced to the right and parallel to the regression line in the "normal patient" group, while the regression line in the "hypothermic patient" group was less sloping and showed a higher intercept.
  • (10) This was because 71% of the ophthalmic arteries arose from the supero-medial aspect of the ICA, and because there was nothing to intercept the view of the medial aspect of the ICA under the optic nerve.
  • (11) In the second affair, a month before polling day, Australian authorities intercepted a boatload of distressed people bound for the northern shores.
  • (12) The removal of protein and high phospholipid:cholesterol ratios decreased the slope of the lines (fluidity increased), although the intercept was unaffected.
  • (13) Obama aides cited intercepted communications of Syrian officials and evidence of movements by Syria's military around Damascus before the attack that killed more than 300 people, said Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House foreign affairs committee.
  • (14) Despite small differences in the mean linear intercept seen at 1 and at 16 months, both male and female tsk mice were found to be similarly susceptible to the development of the emphysematous lesion.
  • (15) "Was there a conspiracy between Mulcaire and News Group Newspapers to intercept voicemail messages?
  • (16) 34 min: England turn the screw, with Wright-Phillips and Ashley Cole combining beautifully down the left flank, before the full-back brings a crucial interception out of Ricardo Clark when he pulls the ball back into the penalty area from the touchline.
  • (17) Essentially, the slide suggests that the NSA also collects some information under FAA702 from cable intercepts, but that process is distinct from Prism.
  • (18) The files reveal that their telephone calls and letters were intercepted and that MI5 informants reported on their activities during the second world war and for years afterwards.
  • (19) Gross interceptive occlusal contacts should be corrected in all patients.
  • (20) Aston Villa goalkeeper intercepts and clutches the ball to his chest.