Intersect vs Intervene - What's the difference?
intersect | intervene |
To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
* Cowper
(mathematics) of two sets, to have at least one element in common
(ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
* De Quincey
To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
(legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
As verbs the difference between intersect and intervene
is that intersect is to cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts while intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things.intersect
English
Verb
(en verb)- Parallel lines don't intersect .
- Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
- Lands intersected by a narrow frith / Abhor each other.
External links
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English
Verb
- The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
- self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
- (Abbott)