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• The Royal Navy sent six dreads and four BCs to intercept the German raiding force.From the entry dread
• Surveillance was accomplished by means of intercepting the spies' communications.From the entry communication
• Sani Araby said the vessels participating in the GSF 2.0 mission began being intercepted at 3 pm Malaysian time.From the entry GSF
• This key encapsulation mechanism allows me to send you a secret key that can't be intercepted by an eavesdropper.From the entry key encapsulation mechanism
• Among others, simplification and synthetization (via the intercept theorem) are mentioned..2016, Francisco Botana, Zoltán Kovács, “New tools in GeoGebra offering novel opportunities to teach loci and envelopes”, in arXiv. From the entry synthetization
• “If they intercept you at sea, they force you into port and take everything.2016 November 18, Anna Fifield, “China is putting the squeeze on North Korea. But for how long?”, in The Washington Post (Asia & Pacific…. From the entry Donggang
• Phone and financial intercepts point to his presence in the building.2015 November 19, “Paris attacks: How the Saint-Denis raid unfolded”, in BBC, archived from the original on 29 May 2018. From the entry Abdelhamid
• GCHQ has probably the most invasive network intercept programme in the world.2013, Edward Snowden, Citizenfour. From the entry full take
• Because of the danger of intercept, transmissions by a submarine are minimized and are coded by enigma.2011, Dan Ryan, Enigma: The Caldwell Series, page 287. From the entry enigma
• Breaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government.1998, Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown. From the entry antibug
• Mallet can intercept Alice's database inquiry, and substitute his own public key for Alice's.1994, Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry mallet
• Jeff unconsciously reached out to touch the pewter casket, but was intercepted by the mother.1986, Craig G. Harris, “Cut Off from Among Their People”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 64. From the entry freezing
• So our broadside will intercept his completely—nothing will get through—at a distance of half a kilomile.1975, Poul Anderson, After Doomsday, London […]: White Lion Publishers Limited, →ISBN, page 69. From the entry kilomile
• Intercepting the Japs the next day, the Airedales shot down ten Zeros and two bombers.1945, United States Navy, Power in the Pacific. From the entry airedale
• Their prayers were answered when future New Orleans Saint and Super Bowl champion Jabari Greer intercepted Croyle's pass.2015, Craig T. Smith, 100 Things Tennessee Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, Triumph Books, →ISBN. From the entry saint
• The medtech intercepted Rett's hand before it made contact with her face and shoved something cold and damp into it.2015, Terry Roy, Gravity: Journey to Nyorfias Book 2. From the entry medtech
• Swales also prevent gullies from forming by intercepting rainwater, slowing it, spreading it, and storing it in the soil.2009, Toby Hemenway, Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition, Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 101. From the entry swale
• But this was hardly the time for exercising one of the specialties that had got him onto the intercept ship, xenobotany.2008, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, Slow Train to Arcturus. From the entry xenobotany
• Heavy debris would generally travel farther downrange within the debris footprint; lighter material would generally fall near the point of intercept.2007, Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS): Environmental Impact. From the entry footprint
• In order to accomplish this, subclass the window of a form or control, intercepting all of its events.2000, James D. Foxall, MCSD in a Nutshell: The Visual Basic Exams, page 93. From the entry subclass
• A target that is not detected would not be intercepted and thus would leak through the single defensive layer.1989, Kenneth N. Luongo, W. Thomas Wander, The Search for Security in Space, page 149. From the entry leak
• Chicago's sticky-fingered defense intercepted five of YA Tittle's passes.1963 December 30, “Bears Win, 14 to 10; Take Title”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 22 Jul 2011, page 13. From the entry sticky-fingered
• Navy's carriers, the antiaircraft fire had been much, much more effective, even if the Wildcats hadn't done particularly well in their intercepts.2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 19:47 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04…. From the entry tangle
• However, back when the route became clear thanks to the Enigma intercepts, Bomber Command had laid more mines in the swept channel.2019 January 9, Drachinifel, 32:48 from the start, in The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity…. From the entry swept
• And 34 species were intercepted from fruits, accounting for 43% of total species, 17 species from seedlings (21.5%), 12 species from vegetables (15.2%).2013, Mo Jie Sun, Ying Jie Zhang, “Plant Quarantine between Thailand and China”, in Yinghui Cheng, Dequn Zhou, Guiming Zhang, Ying Wang…. From the entry interceptive
• He was sure that references to AK in the intercepts stood for Midway, but none of the decodes made the identification certain.2011, Hervie Haufler, Codebreakers' Victory, page 192. From the entry decode
• “Heyo!” He heard a call from the edge of the bluffs and turned to see Jake Simmons angling across the clearing to intercept him.2009, Charles G. West, The Blackfoot Trail. From the entry heyo
• Even if an attacker manages to intercept a one-time password, that password has already been used and is no longer usable to authenticate.2007, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, Wiley, →ISBN. From the entry one-time
• The shellfisher's object is to intercept these and drag them back in his net before a new breaker scatters them up the beach again.1927, Madras Fisheries Bulletin - Volume 18, page 73. From the entry shellfisher
• We had to intercept, load, and run the shipment to our smaller, faster T-Crafts and well boats waiting near the shore to take it to a stash house.2015 April, Tim McBride; with Ralph Berrier, Jr., Saltwater Cowboy: The Rise and Fall of a Marijuana Empire, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s…. From the entry well-boat
• Shims intercept Win32 API calls from legacy applications, as defined by system administrators, and then modify the call before passing the code to Windows for execution.2010, Russell Smith, Least Privilege Security for Windows 7, Vista and XP. From the entry shim
• If and when the remaining Allied intercepts and decodes are opened up, we may expect to learn a great deal more about the later stages of the Holocaust.2004, David Cesarani, Holocaust: Responses to the Persecution and Mass Murder of the Jews, page 148. From the entry decode
• A few hours ago, before the weary day-shift trudged into work (weary this day especially, following last night’s excess and post-catastatic exhaustion), she intercepted Jimmy’s legs.1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 163. From the entry catastatic
• Eight out of twelve Japanese planes were shot down when nineteen Chinese planes intercepted and surprised them at Namhung, ninety miles from Canton according to a Chinese communique.1938 August 31, “On Chinese Front”, in The Bombay Chronicle, page 1. From the entry Shiukwan
• “If I am in a position to intercept him there he will return the message to my hand; if not, he will straightway bear it to the integritous K'o-vih.”1936, Ernest Bramah, The Kai Lung Omnibus, page 599. From the entry integritous
• Just as our combined anticipation was starting to build to a blood-boiling crescendo, the swell lines disappeared from underneath us, intercepted by the coastline of approaching islands to our north.2005, Tom Anderson, Riding the Magic Carpet: A Surfer's Odyssey in Search of the Perfect Wave, →ISBN. From the entry blood-boiling
• They sank twenty shafts in a ring round the central money pit, and drove tunnels endlessly in the hope of intercepting the underground channel and so draining the treasure shaft.1926 June 6, Catherine MacKenzie, “Tide Guards Oak Island's Buried Gold”, in New York Times, page SM11. From the entry money pit

Meaning of intercept

1. verb To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).
2. verb To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.
3. verb Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball.

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How do you use intercept in a sentence?

Intercept is used as a verb and noun. For example: “The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.”

What is a short sentence with intercept?

“the y intercept”

What does intercept mean?

Intercept means to stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).