intersect
/ɪntɚˈsɛkt/ verb C1- To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts. · Parallel lines don't intersect.· Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
- Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
He/she/it intersects · Past intersected · Past participle intersected · -ing form intersecting
Verb forms
- Base form
- intersect
- He/she/it
- intersects
- Past
- intersected
- Past participle
- intersected
- -ing form
- intersecting
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Prim, right-angled paths neatly bordered with clamshells, intersected it like moist red ribbons and in the beds between old-fashioned flowers ran riot.
Chandler protracted his walk until the Forties began to intersect the great and glittering primrose way, for the evening was yet young, and when one is of the _beau monde_ only one day in seventy, one loves to protract the pleasure.
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