Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
INTERCEPT
I. transitive verb see: heave
Date: 15th century
prevent , hinder ,
2. to stop, seize, or interrupt in progress or course or before arrival, to receive (a communication or signal directed elsewhere) usually secretly, to interrupt communication or connection with, to include (part of a curve, surface, or solid) between two points, curves, or surfaces ,
5. to gain possession of (an opponent's pass), to intercept a pass thrown by (an opponent),
II. noun
Date: 1821
the distance from the origin to a point where a graph crosses a coordinate axis, interception , a message, code, or signal that is intercepted (as by monitoring radio communications)