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say it: in-tur-SEPT
intercept is a verb and noun meaning "seize on its way". It carries 3 recorded senses.
tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
“The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy”
“Is this hotel room bugged?”
the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for intercept come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.