These are the meanings of the letters PRETINCTURE when you unscramble them.
- Intercept (n.)
A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves.
- Intercept (v. t.)
To include between; as, that part of the line which is intercepted between the points A and B.
- Intercept (v. t.)
To interrupt communication with, or progress toward; to cut off, as the destination; to blockade.
- Intercept (v. t.)
To obstruct or interrupt the progress of; to stop; to hinder or oppose; as, to intercept the current of a river.
- Intercept (v. t.)
To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will intercept him at Paris.
- Interpret (v. i.)
To act as an interpreter.
- Interpret (v. t.)
To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
- Interpret (v. t.)
To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied esp. to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
- Interrupt (p. a.)
Broken; interrupted.
- Interrupt (v. t.)
To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.
- Interrupt (v. t.)
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
- Prurience (n.)
Alt. of Pruriency