单词 | intersect |
释义 | intersect (once / 1085 pages) v When two things intersect, they run into each other, or lie across each other. Your street might intersect with a main avenue, and your life will hopefully intersect with the lives of other interesting people. In geometry, when a line intersects another line, they meet at exactly one point, and when a circle intersects a line, there are two points where they touch each other. When two streets intersect, you get an intersection, where you'll often find a stop sign or traffic signal. The Latin root of intersect is intersectus, "intersect or cut asunder," which combines inter-, "between," and secare, "to cut." WORD FAMILYintersect: intersected, intersecting, intersection, intersects+/intersecting: nonintersecting/intersection: intersections/sect: intersect, sectarian, sectarist, sects/sectarian: nonsectarian, sectarianism, sectarians, unsectarian/sectarianism: sectarianisms/sectarist: sectarists USAGE EXAMPLESMost people consume pop music one song at a time — three minutes or so, or maybe less, depending on how tolerance and quality intersect. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) A booming economy in the nineteen-fifties intersected with a demographic lull, resulting in “more job vacancies than there are graduates.” The New Yorker(Dec 29, 2016) There are 56 roads that intersect the parade route. Los Angeles Times(Dec 28, 2016) v meet at a point Syn|Hypo|Hyper cross cross meet and pass decussatecross or intersect so as to form a cross come across, encounter, meet, run across, run into, see come together |
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