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Intersert vs Intersect - What's the difference?

intersert | intersect |

As verbs the difference between intersert and intersect

is that intersert is (obsolete|transitive) to put in between other things; to insert while intersect is to cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.

intersert

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To put in between other things; to insert.
  • * Brerewood
  • If I may intersert a short speculation, the depth of the sea is determined in Pliny to be fifteen furlongs.
    (Webster 1913)

    intersect

    English

    Verb

    (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