Intercede vs Intersect - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between intercede and intersect

is that intercede is while intersect is to cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.

(interced)

To plead on someone else's behalf.

To act as a mediator in a dispute; to arbitrate or mediate.

* Milton

I to the lords will intercede , not doubting their favourable ear.

To pass between; to intervene.

* Sir M. Hale

He supposed that a vast period interceded between that origination and the age wherein he lived.

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(en verb)

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.

* Cowper

Lands intersected by a narrow frith / Abhor each other.

(mathematics) of two sets, to have at least one element in common

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