单词 | intersect |
释义 | intersect (ɪntəʳsekt ) Word forms: intersects , intersecting , intersected 1. verb If two or more lines or roads intersect, they meet or cross each other. You can also say that one line or road intersects another. The orbit of this comet intersects the orbit of the Earth. [VERB noun] The circles will intersect in two places. [VERB] The centre of the city is full of tiny intersecting alley-ways. [VERB-ing] 2. verb If one thing intersects with another or if two things intersect, the two things have a connection at a particular point. ...the ways in which historical events intersect with individual lives. [VERB + with] Their histories intersect. [VERB] 3. verb [usually passive] If a place, area, or surface is intersected by things such as roads or lines, they cross it. The city is intersected by three main waterways. [be VERB-ed] Synonyms: cross, meet, cut, divide Collocations: lines intersect Out the kitchen window the whirligig turns, metal spokes merciless as diagrams cutting the air no clothing softens, tiny gems icing the nodes where their lines intersect. The Times Literary Supplement The external tangent lines intersect in the external homothetic center, whereas the internal tangent lines intersect at the internal homothetic center. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This completes the plane, because now parallel lines intersect at a point which lies on the line at infinity. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Outlying and suburban areas are served by seven private railway companies, whose lines intersect at major stations with the subway system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Constrictions, such as at-grade crossings, where lines intersect other lines and/or roadways are eliminated. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The couple's hyper-busy, often separate lives intersect when schedules permit. Times, Sunday Times She captures that wonderfully accidental nature of luck when people's lives intersect for a whole swath of unlikely but cherishable reasons. Times, Sunday Times Over the course of four days their lives intersect. Times, Sunday Times Three damaged lives intersect in a dream-like fable that considers the relationship between life and books. Times, Sunday Times Lives intersect with disastrous consequences under the looming shadow of a greater, public disaster. Times, Sunday Times |
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