Word Finder - intercepted

definition

To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).

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The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.

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To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game

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To take or comprehend between.

On the defeat of the royal army Leslie, intercepted in his retreat through Yorkshire, was committed to the Tower, where he remained till the Restoration in 1660.

I'm having some problems with messages being intercepted after they leave the planet.

Maybe the letter had been intercepted.

He was about to stoop over her hand and kiss it, but with a rapid, almost brutal movement of her head, she intercepted his lips and met them with her own.

Desirous of some token of appreciation from Mary for his services, he entered into a long correspondence with her, which was intercepted by the spies of Walsingham.

We next hear that correspondence with Tirhaka was intercepted, and that Necho, together with Pekrflr of Psapt (at the entrance to the Wadi Tumilat) and the Assyrian governor of Pelusium, was taken to Nineveh in chains to answer the charge of treason.

Owing to this, and also to the fact that an Indian embassy to the Ottoman sultan was intercepted by the agents of Kait Bey, Bayezid II.

To this the beys assented, but with considerable misgivings; for they had intercepted letters from Au to the Albanians, endeavouring to alienate them from their side to his own.

He was intercepted in the Channel by the ship "Nicholas of the Tower," and next morning was beheaded in a little boat alongside.

The few stragglers who persisted in the march were intercepted by troops, and treated with considerable severity.

We know that the radius of curvature of a surface of revolution in the plane normal to the meridian plane is the portion of the normal intercepted by the axis of revolution.

The radius of curvature of a catenary is equal and opposite to the portion of the normal intercepted by the directrix of the catenary.

Berro, ras of Gojam, in order to save himself, attempted to combine with Tigre, but his army was intercepted by Kassa and totally destroyed, himself being taken prisoner and executed (May 1854).

The draft on the exchequer was intercepted by the queen's death.

The energy which the sun pours out into space is, so far as we know, and except for the minute fraction intercepted by the disks of the planets (ii?oooo") absolutely lost for the pur.

The solid intercepted between two parallel planes is a "zone."

It was about this period that he displayed surprising talents in deciphering the intercepted letters and papers of the Royalists.

Lord Lansdowne called the attention of the Russian foreign office to the extreme inconvenience to neutral commerce of the Russian search for contraband not only in the proximity of the scene of war, but over all the world, and especially at places at which neutral commerce could be most effectually intercepted.

Her correspondence in cipher from thence with her English agents abroad, intercepted by Walsingham and deciphered by his secretary, gave eager encouragement to the design for a Spanish invasion of England Under the prince of Parma, - an enterprise in which she would do her utmost to make her son take part, and in case of his refusal would induce the Catholic nobles of Scotland to betray him into the hands of Philip, from whose tutelage he should be released only on her demand, or if after her death he should wish to return, nor then unless he had become a Catholic. But even these patriotic and maternal schemes to consign her child and re-consign the kingdom to the keeping of the Inquisition, incarnate in the widower of Mary Tudor, were superseded by the attraction of a conspiracy against the throne and life of Elizabeth.

I have refracted it with Prismes, and reflected it with Bodies, which in Day-light were of other colours; I have intercepted it with the coloured film of Air interceding two compressed plates of glass, transmitted it through coloured Mediums, and through Mediums irradiated with other sorts of Rays, and diversly terminated it; and yet could never produce any new colour out of it.

You may also see, that, if any of the Colours at the Lens be intercepted, the Whiteness will be changed into the other colours.

It is then easily shown that the difference between the resistance of the coils A and B is equal to the resistance of the length of the slide wire intercepted between the two places at which the balance was found in the two observations.

After executing a great circular sweep through Prigord, Limousin and Berry, he was returning to Bordeaux laden with plunder, when he was intercepted by the king of France near Poitiers.

The conics are distinguished by the ratio between the latus rectum (which was originally called the latus erectum, and now often referred to as the parameter) and the segment of the ordinate intercepted between the diameter and the line joining the second vertex with the extremity of the latus rectum.

In February 1755 he was appointed vice-admiral, and in April he intercepted the French squadron bound to North America, and took the " Alcide " and" Lys "of sixty-four guns each.

My warriors intercepted information from Anshan.

My men intercepted it before it went to Anshan, just as they've intercepted other messages from Anshan directed to someone here.

My warriors have intercepted a message that may reference you as an intended victim.

Alerted to her passage through the perimeter by the microchip implant in her brain, Mr. Tim intercepted her before she reached the command and control hub.

Finally, contraband cigarettes that are intercepted by customs have then to be replaced creating yet more sales.

The file includes some of Taylour's intercepted correspondence, including some that she managed to smuggle out of prison to avoid the censor.

There were many weeks and months when Bletchley Park could not decipher the intercepted messages.

Shortly afterward, Wanklyn intercepted another convoy of five heavily laden supply ships, escorted by four destroyers.

Currently up to 15% of illicit heroin is intercepted.

Such unlawfully intercepted e-mails cannot be used as evidence in court proceedings.

They cannot send letters or E mails or make phone calls in case they are intercepted.

Last month, Taiwan intercepted a North Korean vessel carrying what the United States has called a chemical weapons precursor.

Also in 1997, an intercepted shipment from Beijing to the United States contained more than 2200 pieces.

They had intercepted telegrams sent by Janssen, claiming to be about cigars.

The second book in ten propositions is devoted to the finding the centres of gravity (I) of a parabolic segment, (2) of the area included between any two parallel chords and the portions of the curve intercepted by them.

Some of the correspondence of Douglas and his friends incident to this transaction was intercepted.

The cutter employed to rule these lines removes the silver in fine lines from the surface of the glass, Thus, if a photographic plate, before it is exposed in the telescope, is placed with its sensitive surface nearly in contact with the silvered surface of this reseau, and if parallel light, normal to the surface of the plate, is allowed to fall on the silvered film through the glass on which the film has been deposited, that light will pass through the fine lines in the silver film where the silver has been removed by the cutter, but will otherwise be intercepted by the silver film.

Amongst the threads, which entangle the wings and legs of intercepted prey, the spiders are perfectly at home and can pounce on the struggling victim at once if it be small and harmless or keep at a respectful distance, checking all efforts at escape, if it be poisonous or strong.

The publication of some "intercepted" letters in Rivington's Royal Gazette in New York (1781), in which Deane declared his belief that the struggle for independence was hopeless and counselled a return to British allegiance, aroused such animosity against him in America that for some years he remained in England.

The Syrian caravan intercepted, on its return, at Badr (see Mahomet) represented capital to the value of X20,000, an enormous sum for those days.'

He intercepted some sloppy passing among the Everton defense and tucked a shot away underneath Gerrard.

Now, with the intercepted air terror plot in the news, his recommendation has been getting some attention.

Levana's monitor system uses digital data transfer, which means that you will never pick up interference from a phone or other device, and your baby's sounds and video cannot be intercepted by someone else.

Paper notices are never sent to your home, so there's no chance of your personal information being intercepted in the mail.

Strange telepathic messages have been intercepted that suggest a powerful weapon is here.