INTERSECT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they intersect ... he / she / it intersects

Past simple: intersected

Past participle: intersected

-ing form: intersecting

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meet at a point

Synonyms:

cross; intersect

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "intersect" is one way to...):

come across; encounter; meet; run across; run into; see (come together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "intersect"):

cross (meet and pass)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence examples:

Our properties intersect at this point

His fields intersect mine at this point

Derivation:

intersectant (crossed or intersected in the form of an X)

intersection (the act of intersecting (as joining by causing your path to intersect your target's path))

Credits

Context examples:

The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of snow, down which stones continually roll from above; one of them is particularly dangerous, as the slightest sound, such as even speaking in a loud voice, produces a concussion of air sufficient to draw destruction upon the head of the speaker.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Either of two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic; either of the two times each year when the sun crosses the equator, and day and night are of equal length (spring equinox, fall equinox).

(Equinox, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

With high hopes we struck across the peaty, russet moor, intersected with a thousand sheep paths, until we came to the broad, light-green belt which marked the morass between us and Holdernesse.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gloomy defiles or barrancas intersected this wild country with mountain torrents dashing and foaming between their rugged sides.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We found, however, as we advanced that this portion of the moor is intersected with soft patches, and, though we frequently lost sight of the track, we always succeeded in picking it up once more.