English Explanatory Dictionary

splice

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing 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.
  4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
  5. 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. 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.
  3. To unite in marriage.
  4. To unite as if splicing.
  5. To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
  6. To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.

Pronunciation

/ˈsplaɪ̯s/ /ˈsplɐɪ̯s/ /ˈsplɜɪ̯s/ /ˈsplʌɪ̯s/ /ˈspləɪ̯s/ /ˈsplɑ̟ɪ̯s/ /ˈsplɒ̈ɪ̯s/ en-au-splice.ogg /ˈsplaːs/

Word forms

splice splices splicing spliced

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.

Synonyms

tail

Derived words

bent on a splice comma splice cunt splice cut splice eye splice eyesplice lineman splice lineman's splice mechanical splice pig-tail splice protosplice pseudosplice rat-tail splice splice edit splice form splice grafting spliceless spliceopathy spliceosome spliceostatin splice tape splice variant T-splice twist splice Western Union splice intersplice missplice resplice spliceable splicer splice the mainbrace transplice
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