What does "splice" mean?
A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
Splice
noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·1 syllable ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- Grammar: splice is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: accouple, accumulate, adhesive, affixation.
- Useful contrasts: detach, detachment, disconnection.
- Usage evidence: Could you splice these two pieces of rope together for me?
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- 2 joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together wordnet
- 3 The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- 4 a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together wordnet
- 5 That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
"If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch."
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- 6 Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- 7 The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
Verb
- 1 To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
- 2 join by interweaving strands wordnet
- 3 To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
- 4 join together so as to form new genetic combinations wordnet
- 5 To unite in marriage. slang
"But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced."
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- 6 join the ends of wordnet
- 7 To unite as if splicing. figuratively
"He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition."
- 8 perform a marriage ceremony wordnet
- 9 To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- 10 To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.
Example
"Could you splice these two pieces of rope together for me?"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "splice"?
Common synonyms include: accouple, accumulate, adhesive, affixation, agglomeration, agglutinate.
How do you use "splice" in a sentence?
Could you splice these two pieces of rope together for me?
Etymology
Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”. The same development occurred in German.