resplicev.
/ˌriːˈsplʌɪs/, U.S. /riˈsplaɪs/ transitive. To splice again (in various senses).
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > splice > again
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1831 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 7 New Ser. 91 Having respliced the same cable to 6 fathoms, and connected it to a piece of Peru chain,..the rope broke in the middle between both splices.
1875 R. F. Martin tr. J. Havrez On Recent Improvem. Winding Machinery 69 The practice in Belgium is to cut and resplice the thickest section of the rope.
1939 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 81 90 When partial breaks or tears are felt, the frame is cut out and the film re-spliced.
1960 Isis 51 368/1 Many times the cable snapped; the ships..recovered the lost ends, re-spliced them, only to have them snap again and again.
2003 Focus July 67/3 Genetic modification involves cutting the DNA molecule up and re-splicing it to other fragments.
Derivatives
reˈspliced adj.
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1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 315/2 The large leteen [sic] sail..with its long elastic spliced and re-spliced yard.
2000 Canad. Dimension (Nexis) Feb. 6 A respliced, deconstruction of Hollywood's Holy Trinity: machismo, mammon and mayhem.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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