MEANING
1. To cross another line, route, or area, or to meet at a crossing.
2. To share members, features, or areas of activity with something else.
Use it for
describing where lines or routes cross; identifying a crossing rather than parallel proximity; explaining how crossing lines divide an areaDistinguishes crossing from shared membership or overlap among social and conceptual categories. Academic functions: Comparison / Contrast.
Words that belong together
- intersect at a point
- roads that intersect
- lines intersect a region
On the page
The lines intersect at a point rather than remaining parallel.
The routes intersect near the old commercial center, creating a shared crossing.
The two categories intersect, so membership in one does not exclude membership in the other.
Economic and cultural processes intersect in the institutions examined by the study.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- intersect
- Past tense
- intersected
- Past participle
- intersected
- Present participle
- intersecting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- intersect
- Present continuous
- am/is/are intersecting
- Present perfect
- have/has intersected
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been intersecting
- Past
- intersected
- Past continuous
- was/were intersecting
- Past perfect
- had intersected
- Past perfect continuous
- had been intersecting
- Future
- will intersect
- Future continuous
- will be intersecting
- Future perfect
- will have intersected
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been intersecting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Intransitive or transitive. Intersect with is common for figurative overlap. Third-person intersects; past/participle intersected; present participle intersecting. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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