allow vs intercept

allow

verb
  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

intercept

verb
  • To take or comprehend between. 

  • Of a defensive player: to steal a pass thrown by the opposing team, gaining possession of the ball. 

  • To stop, deflect or divert (something in progress or motion). 

  • To gain possession of (the ball) in a ball game 

  • An aeronautical action in which a fighter approaches a suspicious aircraft to escort it away from a prohibited area, or approaches an enemy aircraft to shoot it down. 

noun
  • An interception of a radio broadcast or a telephone call. 

  • A form of market research where consumers are intercepted and interviewed in a retail store or mall. 

  • An interception of a missile. 

  • The coordinate of the point at which a curve intersects an axis. 

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