(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.
Sniff
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
(v. t.) To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
(v. t.) To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
(n.) The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(2) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(3) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
(4) When Defoe did get a sniff six minutes before half-time, capitalising on a Sylvain Distin slip, he was denied by Artur Boruc’s leg.
(5) His running here was unstinting and he doubled his tally with a clinical finish after a first touch too smart for Pogatetz, preening perhaps after giving Boro a sniff of reprieve.
(6) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
(7) We characterized the relationship between mouth pressure (Pmo) and esophageal pressure (Pes) during sniffs performed with open, semi-occluded, and occluded nose.
(8) In such destructive form Ighalo needs only the slightest sniff at goal and typically his trusty sidekick, Troy Deeney, was the provider, heading down a crossfield pass from Almen Abdi.
(9) "Partition" test was used, in which two males of one line were placed in a common cage divided into two sections by a transparent partition with holes; this partition divided the animals but allowed them to see and sniff each other.
(10) The range of Pdi during maximal sniffs (82-204 cm H2O) had better defined lower limits than Pdi during PImax.
(11) But she railed against commercial success, and at the first sniff of a big hit – Paper Planes , which sampled the Clash's Straight To Hell, and made the US and UK top 20 – she recoiled.
(12) While they spurned several opportunities here, allowing tension to creep in before Tadic scored the second 17 minutes from time, their three centre-halves did not allow the Watford strikeforce of Odion Ighalo and Troy Deeney a sniff.
(13) To assess the relationship between sniff resistance and olfaction, ten subjects without nasal pathology or complaint were asked to estimate the perceived magnitude of the odorant, ethyl butyrate, at each of four concentrations and against each of four different resistances.
(14) Odors could produce spiking responses that were either nonhabituating (response to every sniff) or rapidly habituating (response to first sniff only).
(15) MRR was determined from 10 sniffs for Pes, Pnp, and Pmo before fatigue, and at intervals up to 10 min after fatigue.
(16) But in the early days of Corbyn’s charge, the readers rightly got a sniff that on occasions we weren’t taking him seriously enough.
(17) The toluene users were more likely to sniff only in a group setting, probably because of the long duration of intoxication.
(18) More than one third of the patients aspirated a solution into the middle ear with one or more sniffs by aspirating air from their middle ears, demonstrating eustachian tube patency rather than obstruction.
(19) Don’t sniff at any movie that makes $350m (£215m) in worldwide receipts on largely middling reviews.
(20) Subjects learned to inspire at two flow rates, one twice as great as the other, by adjusting (on a cathode ray tube) the transduced trace of a sniff-produced pressure change to match either of two target contours.