Verb (used with object) : The highway intersects the town.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : intersecting lines.    From Dictionary.com. 

The 12-year-old has said there was another word intersecting with the word "flower," but he does not remember what it was.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Olympian Online -- YahooNews] Reference

Politics, technology and relationships all intersect in the culture wherein we live and breathe, so depicting them as intersecting is nothing more than acknowledging reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Madeline Ashby] Reference

When Heroes really started coming together for me was when the individual story lines begin intersecting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spoilery Thoughts on Heroes] Reference

Could the diverted planes approaching Newark not use the opposite side of that "intersecting" runway by making a left turn, and landing eastwards?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newark runway risks concern feds] Reference

Inside the smaller circle itself, were only two intersecting lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impossible Man - Ep.5: Rumble Under the Jungle] Reference

Scattered along the intersecting ways, but lining William Street from.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

To see this, we imagine two straight lines a and b intersecting at P.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Finally, intersecting lines are to be drawn from M to O and from L to N.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Mediterranean and by a long range of mountains intersecting the whole of Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference

The laws of the pump don't even come close to intersecting with the laws of faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Davos, Bono and the Pump] Reference

Then from the points B and C describe with the compasses two arcs intersecting at D.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Page 18: Changed typo "1.1854" to "1.0854", see intersecting columns 184° F and 200 psi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Engineering Bulletin No 1: Boiler and Furnace Testing] Reference

I was the point on two intersecting lines, mother and son, moving as they moved, part of each.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference

The jungle gym was a tower of intersecting metal bars with two thick twisting logs at its base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spear Master] Reference

The charts display intersecting grids of standardized-test scores and high-school grade-point averages.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Color Is An A?] Reference

It passes through the intersecting point of the three others, and is perpendicular or at right angles to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones] Reference

No fox, however, may turn back on a trail; having once started, he must keep on to the next intersecting point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium] Reference

Three equal axes in the same plane intersecting at angles of 60°, and a fourth at right angles to all of these.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

They are intersecting it so fast with canals, that in a year or two this beautiful town will be completely dammed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference

  The intersection was starkly silent; the buildings, the intersecting streets, they merely defined an empty space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ibby's Falafel] Reference

From the four points thus obtained draw lines intersecting the centre from one side of the circumference to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

The pattern known as "H" is a simple diamond made by intersecting diagonal lines similar to the ribs of the "T" pattern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference

Against such blasts the solid wall was necessary, while the many intersecting partitions inside gave additional strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference

It is worked in a similar manner, over and under the sides of squares formed by intersecting straight lines of the thread.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Modern Lace Making] Reference

At various points we came upon intersecting trenches, most of which were marked with the name of the point to which they led.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emma Gees] Reference

The logs were laid one above another, to the height of four feet, intersecting at the corners of the houses like the rails of a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

Away to right and left were masses of flat, swampy land, the intersecting waterways reddening and glistening in the setting sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference

"One Day" charts the couple's sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting lives every subsequent July 15 for the next two decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stigma of Paperback Originals] Reference

Looking at Fig. 92, it will be seen that in addition to the perspective sketch of the intersecting arches, there is drawn under it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888] Reference

A track ran lengthwise of the trestle over each culvert wall, and a cross track intersecting both with turntables ran to the mixer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concrete Construction Methods and Costs] Reference

So when you did the Venn diagram intersecting those who liked dried fruit with those who loved cranberries, it was a huge population.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ocean Spray's Secrets Of Co-op Success] Reference

With the same radius and with one compass point rested at V ', draw the arc P'; then two arcs, P and P ', intersecting at the point S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

Are you not willing to brave the dangerous locomotives crossing the intersecting lines of railways, just to see those crowds of lumpers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference

The road General Blair speaks of is the one running from Lake's Landing and intersecting with the Vicksburg road on the Chickasaw Bluffs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

There the yard was formed, a labyrinth of intersecting paths, kept free from deep snow and leading to the best places for food and shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Followers of the Trail] Reference

Washington Place, intersecting near the centre of the city, Eutaw Place farther N.W., and Broadway running N. and S. through the middle of East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference