Splice

Could you splice these two pieces of rope together for me?

After his colonoscopy, Tom learned that he had cancer. The surgeon cut out and removed the part of his sigmoid colon in which a tumour had been growing, and with staples she fashioned a new splice from the two shorter and cut-through ends. Because of his good health, he healed quickly and after only three days was discharged from the hospital.

Before pouring cement mixture into forms for a foundation, the work crew securely place an armature of steel bars at a predetermined spacing in order to reinforce the finished building's hardened concrete. If a piece of steel is not long enough to span the required distance, the workers will overlap two pieces and tie them together to form a strong splice.

It's hard to splice the two fragments together.

Elsa and Clive are experts at splicing together genes of different species for research into new, life-saving medicines; but the line they dare not cross is to splice human genetic material into an experiment.

This sentence contains a comma splice. Replacing the comma with a period or a semicolon would fix the problem.

Perhaps it's technically a comma splice, but I still think this is fine. A period would break up the intended flow of the sentence and a semicolon is too much here.

If the ball hits the splice, it is likely to dolly up for an easy catch.

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.

Ah! thinkin’ o’ gettin’ spliced, you two?