Meaning

5 senses
  1. A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.

    Verbindung, Spleiß

    сращиваниеsraščivanije, сплесеньsplesenʹ, свя́зываниеsvjázyvanije

    joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together

  2. The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.

  3. 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.

  4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.

  5. The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Could you splice these two pieces of rope together for me?

  2. It's hard to splice the two fragments together.

    Важко склеїти два фрагменти разом. — Ahha

    ruСложно склеить два фрагмента вместе. — astru

  3. Some people see avoiding comma splices as unnatural.

    deManche finden es unnatürlich, es partout zu vermeiden, Hauptsätze einfach nur mit Kommas aneinanderzureihen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Tatoeba has no statute of limitations on adding sentences with comma splices.

    deBei Tatoeba verjährt es nicht, wenn man statt eines Punktes ein Komma setzt! — Pfirsichbaeumchen · CC BY 2.0 FR

  5. Word splicing is funny.

    ruВордмикс — это забавно. — Ooneykcall

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
junction or joining of ropes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
junction or joining of ropes:

Origin

Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Du

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.

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Forms

plural: splices
Singularsplice
Pluralsplices

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together:splicing
  • joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together:lap joint

Word family

20 related words

See also

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