(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.
Radio
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Cells (1 x 10(5)) were seeded in 12- x -75-mm tissue culture tubes and incubated with various doses of IL-1 beta, IL-1 alpha, TNF-alpha, and IFN-gamma, alone or in specific combinations, for 15 min, two, 12, 24, and 72 h. PGE concentrations in the media were measured by radio-immunoassay.
(2) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
(3) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
(4) This week MediaGuardian 25, our survey of Britain's most important media companies, covering TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, music and digital, looks at BSkyB.
(5) The New York Times, which shared the files with the Guardian and US National Public Radio, said it did not obtain them from WikiLeaks.
(6) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(7) 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.
(8) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
(9) Radio-iron utilization was nearly normal in these patients, only bilateral nephrectomized patients showed a reduced radio-iron utilization.
(10) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
(11) Heart rates were obtained simultaneously from FM radio transmitters and heart rate monitors externally mounted on unanesthetized and unrestrained mixed-breed goats.
(12) Speaking in the BBC's Radio Theatre, Hall will emphasise the need for a better, simpler BBC, as part of efforts to streamline management.
(13) 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.
(14) The Radio-PAGE and immunoblot typing methods both gave precise identification of Helicobacter pylori strains, but Radio-PAGE was found to give higher resolution and represents a standardised universally applicable fingerprinting method for Helicobacter pylori.
(15) The BBC has reversed its decision to close the Asian Network digital radio station – but will look to cut its budget in half.
(16) The radio-activity of 99mTc of the entire cardiac blood pool including the large vessels (T), the right ventricle including the right atrium (RV) and the left ventricle (LV) was calculated from the 30 degrees anterior oblique cardiac pool scintigram.
(17) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
(18) In a BBC Radio 4 performance that attempts to underline his status as a normal bloke – although he admits he was too "square" to attract a girlfriend at university – Miliband's luxury item is a weekly chicken tikka masala from his local north London Indian takeaway.
(19) Tipping petrol on a fire isn’t going to get the heat out of it,” he told ABC radio.
(20) The sergeant, listening in, was perplexed: "We obviously have, because I can hear you on the radio.