Intercept vs Stifle - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between intercept and stifle

is that intercept is to stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion) while stifle is to treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

intercept

English

Noun

(en noun)

An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call.

(senseid)An interception of a missile.

(algebraic geometry) The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis.

*2012 , Alice Kaseberg, Greg Cripe, Peter Wildman, Introductory Algebra: Everyday Explorations , page 278

*:Because the horizontal-axis intercept' occurs when y=0 and the vertical-axis '''intercept''' occurs when x=0, we can find the ' intercepts algebraically.

Verb

(en verb)

To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion).

The police intercepted the package of stolen goods while it was in transit.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=2 , ...and made every vein of my body circulate liquid fires: the emotion grew so violent that it almost intercepted my respiration.}}

(sports) To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game.

stifle

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)

A hind knee of various mammals, especially horses.

(veterinary medicine) A bone disease of this region.

Verb

(stifl)

To interrupt or cut off.

To repress, keep in or hold back.

* Waterland

I desire only to have things fairly represented as they really are; no evidence smothered or stifled .

* , chapter=15

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 29, author=Neil Johnston, work=BBC Sport

, title= Norwich 3-3 Blackburn , passage=In fact, there was no suggestion of that, although Wolves deployed men behind the ball to stifle the league leaders in a first-half that proved very frustrating for City.}}

To smother or suffocate.

* (John Dryden)

Stifled with kisses, a sweet death he dies.

* (Jonathan Swift)

I took my leave, being half stifled with the closeness of the room.

To feel smothered etc.

To die of suffocation.

To treat a silkworm cocoon with steam as part of the process of silk production.

Synonyms

* (to die of suffocation) See also * (To repress or hold back) hinder, restrain, suppress, throttle

Anagrams

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