Definition of splice in English:

splice

verb splʌɪssplaɪs

[with object]

1Join or connect (a rope or ropes) by interweaving the strands at the ends.
we learned how to weave and splice ropes
figurative the work splices detail and generalization
Example sentencesExamples
- This alleviates the need to splice the 115V cable so you can pass through the rear panel from inside the case, thus making for a cleaner installation.
- Since it was official multicultural policy that different cultures should be preserved rather than blended, spliced and interwoven, this all seemed rational.
- Without the money for college, he started working for New York Telephone splicing cables in 1966.
- As teams always are looking to splice rookie talent into their running games, veteran backs can go from main attractions to forgettable short features in a hurry - just ask Travis Henry.
- Vantec did a nice job splicing the cables, and binding them nicely with the rubber housing.
- They'd erect the posts, splice them together with the ropes and everything.
- Mr. Wilde was unable to say what was the nature of the rot in the wood spliced on to the original part of the bressummer, but he considered the stain on the original part of the beam to be evidence of dry rot.
- There are a variety of connectors available that allow you to splice the ropes end to end, in a T-shape, or in a Y-shape.
- Dad and Uncle Will got the idea of splicing a length of manila rope to a 3/4-inch diameter ‘6 x 7’ construction wire rope.
- Here he splices together strands of blues and straight down-the-line rock with some folk, psychedelia, trip-hop and world music influences.
- Other activities which have passed out of vogue were rabbit skinning, poultry dressing and rope splicing.
- This line was made by splicing a 100-foot section of handmade rope, fashioned methodically by Antoni and her assistant over months, to a section of manufactured industrial rope.
- But when a memoir starts moving the order of events, or splicing characters into composites, it's further manipulating reality, tidying it up for the purposes of the grand narrative design.
- After removing the arms, she rifled through the copious wires, cutting some and splicing others, until she had unhooked a small laser pistol from its mount on the Lookout's wrist.
- Strip the wires as needed, then splice them to the fixture wires with twist-on wire connectors.
- Will the two splicing connectors in the middle affect this 12 meter length and, if so, by how much?
- A certified sailing instructor, Tritch can teach almost anything nautical, from splicing rope and knot-tying to tearing down heads and tuning up engines.
- It splices the twin themes of peace and humanity with an undercurrent of Indo-Pak relations.
Synonyms
interweave, braid, plait, entwine, intertwine, interlace, knit, mesh
join, unite, connect, bind, fasten, tie
Nautical marry
1. 1.1 Join (pieces of timber, film, or tape) at the ends.
  commercials can be spliced in later
  he had to splice the short music films together
  Example sentencesExamples
  This is the director's cut of the film, where about four minutes of extra scenes are spliced back into the film.
  The scenes are spliced in throughout the presentation, so you will not come across many entirely new scenes, though a few do exist, but not of great length.
  Whether they simply spliced in interview footage into the commentary or Tommy simply tells the same stories exactly the same way I don't know.
  Not content with delving into various mediums with which to present their releases, which in the past have been anything from 8 track cartridges to spliced tape segments.
  Are you constantly shooting a scene multiple times in multiple ways and then splicing your favorite pieces together in the editing room?
  But just a few years ago, he would have had to splice reel-to-reel audio tapes to make his test materials - several times, in order to get randomized presentation orders.
  Film-makers have dubbed songs over personal footage to create their own music videos while others have spliced sections of different films together to create new plots.
  So I learned how to splice film and I got rather good at it.
  Oh sure, there are newsreel interviews and radio Q & As with each of the boys, but it's all out-of-context content, material removed from its original entity and spliced in to make this movie seem more authentic.
  Unfortunately, Freeman's comments were recorded separately and spliced in.
  This softness seems in part to be intentional in order to replicate the grainy news and other stock footage which is occasionally spliced in.
  What is provided is Demme's commentary with comments recorded in interviews with Jung spliced in, balanced about 90-10 in Demme's favor.
  The frame jumps, shakes and flickers as if the film were badly spliced together, but this annoying defect only happens two or three times during the film.
  For the early film-makers, such as Georges Melies and the Lumiere brothers, editing and being able to splice film was part of how to put scenes together.
  The lengthy performance numbers seem almost spliced in from another movie, and the narrative flow gets lost every time the film detours into a concert hall.
  They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
  Many scenes on the field were filmed with the real players, and much stock footage of Sayers and Piccolo in action are also spliced in.
  Students then need to decide on how best to select and splice lengths of film into a single piece and edit it until it becomes a unified movie.
  There's also some material about a bus and a museum theft that makes no sense at all, and feels spliced in from another film.
  ‘On The Set Action’ is a very short music video-ish feature that shows clips from the film spliced with behind-the-scenes footage.
2. 1.2Genetics Join or insert (a gene or gene fragment)
  they have spliced a gene into tomatoes that improves flavour
  Example sentencesExamples
  In higher eukaryotes, introns are spliced out of protein-coding mRNAs by the spliceosome, a massive complex comprising five non-coding RNAs and about 200 proteins.
  To minimize redundancy, short sequences of fewer than 20 amino acid residues were excluded, and only one such sequence from each set of homologous alternatively spliced genes was retained.
  Mendel did not splice genes; he didn't actually control anything at all.
  Mammalian genomes contain a large number of alternatively spliced genes that have multiple ‘variable’ first exons.
  The set of genes with conserved alternatively spliced exons therefore serves as a function-matched control for comparison to genes with genome-specific alternatively spliced exons.

noun splʌɪssplaɪs

1A join consisting of two ropes, pieces of tape or timber, etc. joined together at the ends.
so smooth is the splice that you can't see the join
Example sentencesExamples
- Special metal plywood clips will add stability to the splices where the sheets meet between rafters.
- All that remains is to fasten the bow to a tuft of hair, using the ends of the center splice to tie the knot.
- The fabrication was done so well that at first glance the splice isn't noticeable; closer inspection, however, reveals two sets of dorsal fins.
- Panel size is derived from the 1.5m width of the metal coil and the desire for a surface without splices, yielding 1.14m square panels with folded returns.
- The height of the forms and the tapering of the tower necessitated mechanical rebar splices.
- Thanks to the suspension tops and diagonal drop-down field splices, the fill-in pieces were successfully erected and positioned, says Budzius.
- The use of integrated circuitry eliminates the necessity for hard wiring and greatly reduces the number of wires and splices in the vehicle also reducing the potential for problems.
- The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes.
- Attenuation can be attributed to a number of elements, including fiber distance, number of patch panel connections and splices, dirty fiber connectors.
- Coils of lights are available in lengths of up to about 150 feet, along with all of the splice and power cord fittings, to allow you to make up just about whatever length and shape you're looking for.
- Then I felt the thickening of the rope - a splice!
- These work well as mending plates or for light-duty wood-to-wood splices.
- Avoid pieces that are bent out of shape or heavily restored with new splices or soldering.
- ‘Old hand’ instructors used it as they put us raw recruits through our paces: square-bashing, knots and splices, gunnery practice, what to do in the event of atomic or chemical attack, and the like.
1. 1.1 The wedge-shaped tang of a cricket-bat handle, forming a joint with the blade.
  Example sentencesExamples
  However, it's quicker than he expects: it comes off the splice of his bat, and loops high into the air and Harmison takes an easy catch at square leg.
  For the second day in a row, VRV Singh charged in and caught the splice on several occasions but groaned and cussed as catches went to ground.
  Mark Vermeulen failed to get behind a rising delivery from Edwards and lobbed a simple catch off the splice to Shivnarine Chanderpaul at gully.
  Fast bowlers bang the ball in but nothing hits the splice of the bat, there are no edges, shoulders drop and there is an air of lethargy and helplessness in the movement of fielders.

Phrases

get (or be) spliced

informal Get married.
Example sentencesExamples
- And as soon as she was spliced, she hopped back on to the machine, with new husband Christopher Manners, to ride off to their reception.
Synonyms
get married, marry, wed, get wed, become husband and wife, become man and wife, plight one's troth

splice the main brace

historical (in the navy) serve out an extra tot of rum.
Example sentencesExamples
- Let us splice the main brace to steel the men before battle.
- They secured the engine after twenty seconds and spliced the main brace in celebration.
- Time to splice the main brace and do what we Brits do best, battle the French.
- Lunch is also special with turkey on the menu and the whole camp again spliced the main brace at eleven thirty and again at half past two.
- Today, to say to a friend, ‘Let's splice the main brace!’

Derivatives

splicer

noun ˈsplʌɪsəˈsplaɪsər

With two buttons you can accomplish more than an afternoon with a pile of reel-to-reel tape, scissors and splicer.
Example sentencesExamples
- Having no splicer, Markopoulos edited the film with a magnifying glass, cellophane tape an a razor blade.
- For years he was a high-voltage cable splicer, a job he loved because it meant working outdoors with plenty of freedom and overtime pay.
- The gene splicers rearranging the genetic codes of untold species are operating blindly, he says.
- Three cable splicers and two members of the line crew had accepted the offer.

Origin

Early 16th century: probably from Middle Dutch splissen, of unknown origin.

Rhymes

advice, bice, Brice, choc ice, concise, dice, entice, gneiss, ice, imprecise, lice, mice, nice, precise, price, rice, sice, slice, speiss, spice, suffice, syce, thrice, top-slice, trice, twice, underprice, vice, Zeiss

Definition of splice in US English:

splice

verbsplaɪssplīs

[with object]

1Join or connect (a rope or ropes) by interweaving the strands.
we learned how to weave and splice ropes
figurative the work splices detail and generalization
a cord was spliced on
Example sentencesExamples
- It splices the twin themes of peace and humanity with an undercurrent of Indo-Pak relations.
- Without the money for college, he started working for New York Telephone splicing cables in 1966.
- After removing the arms, she rifled through the copious wires, cutting some and splicing others, until she had unhooked a small laser pistol from its mount on the Lookout's wrist.
- Since it was official multicultural policy that different cultures should be preserved rather than blended, spliced and interwoven, this all seemed rational.
- Here he splices together strands of blues and straight down-the-line rock with some folk, psychedelia, trip-hop and world music influences.
- Strip the wires as needed, then splice them to the fixture wires with twist-on wire connectors.
- Vantec did a nice job splicing the cables, and binding them nicely with the rubber housing.
- This line was made by splicing a 100-foot section of handmade rope, fashioned methodically by Antoni and her assistant over months, to a section of manufactured industrial rope.
- As teams always are looking to splice rookie talent into their running games, veteran backs can go from main attractions to forgettable short features in a hurry - just ask Travis Henry.
- Will the two splicing connectors in the middle affect this 12 meter length and, if so, by how much?
- But when a memoir starts moving the order of events, or splicing characters into composites, it's further manipulating reality, tidying it up for the purposes of the grand narrative design.
- They'd erect the posts, splice them together with the ropes and everything.
- A certified sailing instructor, Tritch can teach almost anything nautical, from splicing rope and knot-tying to tearing down heads and tuning up engines.
- Mr. Wilde was unable to say what was the nature of the rot in the wood spliced on to the original part of the bressummer, but he considered the stain on the original part of the beam to be evidence of dry rot.
- Dad and Uncle Will got the idea of splicing a length of manila rope to a 3/4-inch diameter ‘6 x 7’ construction wire rope.
- There are a variety of connectors available that allow you to splice the ropes end to end, in a T-shape, or in a Y-shape.
- Other activities which have passed out of vogue were rabbit skinning, poultry dressing and rope splicing.
- This alleviates the need to splice the 115V cable so you can pass through the rear panel from inside the case, thus making for a cleaner installation.
Synonyms
interweave, braid, plait, entwine, intertwine, interlace, knit, mesh
1. 1.1 Join (pieces of timber, film, or tape) at the ends.
  commercials can be spliced in later
  I was splicing together a video from the footage on opium-growing
  Example sentencesExamples
  The frame jumps, shakes and flickers as if the film were badly spliced together, but this annoying defect only happens two or three times during the film.
  Whether they simply spliced in interview footage into the commentary or Tommy simply tells the same stories exactly the same way I don't know.
  Many scenes on the field were filmed with the real players, and much stock footage of Sayers and Piccolo in action are also spliced in.
  They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
  Oh sure, there are newsreel interviews and radio Q & As with each of the boys, but it's all out-of-context content, material removed from its original entity and spliced in to make this movie seem more authentic.
  What is provided is Demme's commentary with comments recorded in interviews with Jung spliced in, balanced about 90-10 in Demme's favor.
  Unfortunately, Freeman's comments were recorded separately and spliced in.
  This is the director's cut of the film, where about four minutes of extra scenes are spliced back into the film.
  The lengthy performance numbers seem almost spliced in from another movie, and the narrative flow gets lost every time the film detours into a concert hall.
  So I learned how to splice film and I got rather good at it.
  There's also some material about a bus and a museum theft that makes no sense at all, and feels spliced in from another film.
  For the early film-makers, such as Georges Melies and the Lumiere brothers, editing and being able to splice film was part of how to put scenes together.
  ‘On The Set Action’ is a very short music video-ish feature that shows clips from the film spliced with behind-the-scenes footage.
  But just a few years ago, he would have had to splice reel-to-reel audio tapes to make his test materials - several times, in order to get randomized presentation orders.
  Not content with delving into various mediums with which to present their releases, which in the past have been anything from 8 track cartridges to spliced tape segments.
  Film-makers have dubbed songs over personal footage to create their own music videos while others have spliced sections of different films together to create new plots.
  The scenes are spliced in throughout the presentation, so you will not come across many entirely new scenes, though a few do exist, but not of great length.
  This softness seems in part to be intentional in order to replicate the grainy news and other stock footage which is occasionally spliced in.
  Are you constantly shooting a scene multiple times in multiple ways and then splicing your favorite pieces together in the editing room?
  Students then need to decide on how best to select and splice lengths of film into a single piece and edit it until it becomes a unified movie.
2. 1.2Genetics Join or insert (a gene or gene fragment).
  Example sentencesExamples
  In higher eukaryotes, introns are spliced out of protein-coding mRNAs by the spliceosome, a massive complex comprising five non-coding RNAs and about 200 proteins.
  Mammalian genomes contain a large number of alternatively spliced genes that have multiple ‘variable’ first exons.
  The set of genes with conserved alternatively spliced exons therefore serves as a function-matched control for comparison to genes with genome-specific alternatively spliced exons.
  Mendel did not splice genes; he didn't actually control anything at all.
  To minimize redundancy, short sequences of fewer than 20 amino acid residues were excluded, and only one such sequence from each set of homologous alternatively spliced genes was retained.

nounsplaɪssplīs

A union of two ropes, pieces of timber, or similar materials spliced together at the ends.
Example sentencesExamples
- Special metal plywood clips will add stability to the splices where the sheets meet between rafters.
- All that remains is to fasten the bow to a tuft of hair, using the ends of the center splice to tie the knot.
- The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes.
- The height of the forms and the tapering of the tower necessitated mechanical rebar splices.
- The fabrication was done so well that at first glance the splice isn't noticeable; closer inspection, however, reveals two sets of dorsal fins.
- Panel size is derived from the 1.5m width of the metal coil and the desire for a surface without splices, yielding 1.14m square panels with folded returns.
- Thanks to the suspension tops and diagonal drop-down field splices, the fill-in pieces were successfully erected and positioned, says Budzius.
- Attenuation can be attributed to a number of elements, including fiber distance, number of patch panel connections and splices, dirty fiber connectors.
- Coils of lights are available in lengths of up to about 150 feet, along with all of the splice and power cord fittings, to allow you to make up just about whatever length and shape you're looking for.
- These work well as mending plates or for light-duty wood-to-wood splices.
- The use of integrated circuitry eliminates the necessity for hard wiring and greatly reduces the number of wires and splices in the vehicle also reducing the potential for problems.
- ‘Old hand’ instructors used it as they put us raw recruits through our paces: square-bashing, knots and splices, gunnery practice, what to do in the event of atomic or chemical attack, and the like.
- Avoid pieces that are bent out of shape or heavily restored with new splices or soldering.
- Then I felt the thickening of the rope - a splice!

Origin

Early 16th century: probably from Middle Dutch splissen, of unknown origin.

单词	splice
释义	Definition of splice in English: splice verb splʌɪssplaɪs [with object] 1Join or connect (a rope or ropes) by interweaving the strands at the ends. we learned how to weave and splice ropes figurative the work splices detail and generalization Example sentencesExamples This alleviates the need to splice the 115V cable so you can pass through the rear panel from inside the case, thus making for a cleaner installation. Since it was official multicultural policy that different cultures should be preserved rather than blended, spliced and interwoven, this all seemed rational. Without the money for college, he started working for New York Telephone splicing cables in 1966. As teams always are looking to splice rookie talent into their running games, veteran backs can go from main attractions to forgettable short features in a hurry - just ask Travis Henry. Vantec did a nice job splicing the cables, and binding them nicely with the rubber housing. They'd erect the posts, splice them together with the ropes and everything. Mr. Wilde was unable to say what was the nature of the rot in the wood spliced on to the original part of the bressummer, but he considered the stain on the original part of the beam to be evidence of dry rot. There are a variety of connectors available that allow you to splice the ropes end to end, in a T-shape, or in a Y-shape. Dad and Uncle Will got the idea of splicing a length of manila rope to a 3/4-inch diameter ‘6 x 7’ construction wire rope. Here he splices together strands of blues and straight down-the-line rock with some folk, psychedelia, trip-hop and world music influences. Other activities which have passed out of vogue were rabbit skinning, poultry dressing and rope splicing. This line was made by splicing a 100-foot section of handmade rope, fashioned methodically by Antoni and her assistant over months, to a section of manufactured industrial rope. But when a memoir starts moving the order of events, or splicing characters into composites, it's further manipulating reality, tidying it up for the purposes of the grand narrative design. After removing the arms, she rifled through the copious wires, cutting some and splicing others, until she had unhooked a small laser pistol from its mount on the Lookout's wrist. Strip the wires as needed, then splice them to the fixture wires with twist-on wire connectors. Will the two splicing connectors in the middle affect this 12 meter length and, if so, by how much? A certified sailing instructor, Tritch can teach almost anything nautical, from splicing rope and knot-tying to tearing down heads and tuning up engines. It splices the twin themes of peace and humanity with an undercurrent of Indo-Pak relations. Synonyms interweave, braid, plait, entwine, intertwine, interlace, knit, mesh join, unite, connect, bind, fasten, tie Nautical marry 1.1 Join (pieces of timber, film, or tape) at the ends. commercials can be spliced in later he had to splice the short music films together Example sentencesExamples This is the director's cut of the film, where about four minutes of extra scenes are spliced back into the film. The scenes are spliced in throughout the presentation, so you will not come across many entirely new scenes, though a few do exist, but not of great length. Whether they simply spliced in interview footage into the commentary or Tommy simply tells the same stories exactly the same way I don't know. Not content with delving into various mediums with which to present their releases, which in the past have been anything from 8 track cartridges to spliced tape segments. Are you constantly shooting a scene multiple times in multiple ways and then splicing your favorite pieces together in the editing room? But just a few years ago, he would have had to splice reel-to-reel audio tapes to make his test materials - several times, in order to get randomized presentation orders. Film-makers have dubbed songs over personal footage to create their own music videos while others have spliced sections of different films together to create new plots. So I learned how to splice film and I got rather good at it. Oh sure, there are newsreel interviews and radio Q & As with each of the boys, but it's all out-of-context content, material removed from its original entity and spliced in to make this movie seem more authentic. Unfortunately, Freeman's comments were recorded separately and spliced in. This softness seems in part to be intentional in order to replicate the grainy news and other stock footage which is occasionally spliced in. What is provided is Demme's commentary with comments recorded in interviews with Jung spliced in, balanced about 90-10 in Demme's favor. The frame jumps, shakes and flickers as if the film were badly spliced together, but this annoying defect only happens two or three times during the film. For the early film-makers, such as Georges Melies and the Lumiere brothers, editing and being able to splice film was part of how to put scenes together. The lengthy performance numbers seem almost spliced in from another movie, and the narrative flow gets lost every time the film detours into a concert hall. They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul. Many scenes on the field were filmed with the real players, and much stock footage of Sayers and Piccolo in action are also spliced in. Students then need to decide on how best to select and splice lengths of film into a single piece and edit it until it becomes a unified movie. There's also some material about a bus and a museum theft that makes no sense at all, and feels spliced in from another film. ‘On The Set Action’ is a very short music video-ish feature that shows clips from the film spliced with behind-the-scenes footage. 1.2Genetics Join or insert (a gene or gene fragment) they have spliced a gene into tomatoes that improves flavour Example sentencesExamples In higher eukaryotes, introns are spliced out of protein-coding mRNAs by the spliceosome, a massive complex comprising five non-coding RNAs and about 200 proteins. To minimize redundancy, short sequences of fewer than 20 amino acid residues were excluded, and only one such sequence from each set of homologous alternatively spliced genes was retained. Mendel did not splice genes; he didn't actually control anything at all. Mammalian genomes contain a large number of alternatively spliced genes that have multiple ‘variable’ first exons. The set of genes with conserved alternatively spliced exons therefore serves as a function-matched control for comparison to genes with genome-specific alternatively spliced exons. noun splʌɪssplaɪs 1A join consisting of two ropes, pieces of tape or timber, etc. joined together at the ends. so smooth is the splice that you can't see the join Example sentencesExamples Special metal plywood clips will add stability to the splices where the sheets meet between rafters. All that remains is to fasten the bow to a tuft of hair, using the ends of the center splice to tie the knot. The fabrication was done so well that at first glance the splice isn't noticeable; closer inspection, however, reveals two sets of dorsal fins. Panel size is derived from the 1.5m width of the metal coil and the desire for a surface without splices, yielding 1.14m square panels with folded returns. The height of the forms and the tapering of the tower necessitated mechanical rebar splices. Thanks to the suspension tops and diagonal drop-down field splices, the fill-in pieces were successfully erected and positioned, says Budzius. The use of integrated circuitry eliminates the necessity for hard wiring and greatly reduces the number of wires and splices in the vehicle also reducing the potential for problems. The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes. Attenuation can be attributed to a number of elements, including fiber distance, number of patch panel connections and splices, dirty fiber connectors. Coils of lights are available in lengths of up to about 150 feet, along with all of the splice and power cord fittings, to allow you to make up just about whatever length and shape you're looking for. Then I felt the thickening of the rope - a splice! These work well as mending plates or for light-duty wood-to-wood splices. Avoid pieces that are bent out of shape or heavily restored with new splices or soldering. ‘Old hand’ instructors used it as they put us raw recruits through our paces: square-bashing, knots and splices, gunnery practice, what to do in the event of atomic or chemical attack, and the like. 1.1 The wedge-shaped tang of a cricket-bat handle, forming a joint with the blade. Example sentencesExamples However, it's quicker than he expects: it comes off the splice of his bat, and loops high into the air and Harmison takes an easy catch at square leg. For the second day in a row, VRV Singh charged in and caught the splice on several occasions but groaned and cussed as catches went to ground. Mark Vermeulen failed to get behind a rising delivery from Edwards and lobbed a simple catch off the splice to Shivnarine Chanderpaul at gully. Fast bowlers bang the ball in but nothing hits the splice of the bat, there are no edges, shoulders drop and there is an air of lethargy and helplessness in the movement of fielders. Phrases get (or be) spliced informal Get married. Example sentencesExamples And as soon as she was spliced, she hopped back on to the machine, with new husband Christopher Manners, to ride off to their reception. Synonyms get married, marry, wed, get wed, become husband and wife, become man and wife, plight one's troth splice the main brace historical (in the navy) serve out an extra tot of rum. Example sentencesExamples Let us splice the main brace to steel the men before battle. They secured the engine after twenty seconds and spliced the main brace in celebration. Time to splice the main brace and do what we Brits do best, battle the French. Lunch is also special with turkey on the menu and the whole camp again spliced the main brace at eleven thirty and again at half past two. Today, to say to a friend, ‘Let's splice the main brace!’ Derivatives splicer noun ˈsplʌɪsəˈsplaɪsər With two buttons you can accomplish more than an afternoon with a pile of reel-to-reel tape, scissors and splicer. Example sentencesExamples Having no splicer, Markopoulos edited the film with a magnifying glass, cellophane tape an a razor blade. For years he was a high-voltage cable splicer, a job he loved because it meant working outdoors with plenty of freedom and overtime pay. The gene splicers rearranging the genetic codes of untold species are operating blindly, he says. Three cable splicers and two members of the line crew had accepted the offer. Origin Early 16th century: probably from Middle Dutch splissen, of unknown origin. Rhymes advice, bice, Brice, choc ice, concise, dice, entice, gneiss, ice, imprecise, lice, mice, nice, precise, price, rice, sice, slice, speiss, spice, suffice, syce, thrice, top-slice, trice, twice, underprice, vice, Zeiss verb.1 phr. Definition of splice in US English: splice verbsplaɪssplīs [with object] 1Join or connect (a rope or ropes) by interweaving the strands. we learned how to weave and splice ropes figurative the work splices detail and generalization a cord was spliced on Example sentencesExamples It splices the twin themes of peace and humanity with an undercurrent of Indo-Pak relations. Without the money for college, he started working for New York Telephone splicing cables in 1966. After removing the arms, she rifled through the copious wires, cutting some and splicing others, until she had unhooked a small laser pistol from its mount on the Lookout's wrist. Since it was official multicultural policy that different cultures should be preserved rather than blended, spliced and interwoven, this all seemed rational. Here he splices together strands of blues and straight down-the-line rock with some folk, psychedelia, trip-hop and world music influences. Strip the wires as needed, then splice them to the fixture wires with twist-on wire connectors. Vantec did a nice job splicing the cables, and binding them nicely with the rubber housing. This line was made by splicing a 100-foot section of handmade rope, fashioned methodically by Antoni and her assistant over months, to a section of manufactured industrial rope. As teams always are looking to splice rookie talent into their running games, veteran backs can go from main attractions to forgettable short features in a hurry - just ask Travis Henry. Will the two splicing connectors in the middle affect this 12 meter length and, if so, by how much? But when a memoir starts moving the order of events, or splicing characters into composites, it's further manipulating reality, tidying it up for the purposes of the grand narrative design. They'd erect the posts, splice them together with the ropes and everything. A certified sailing instructor, Tritch can teach almost anything nautical, from splicing rope and knot-tying to tearing down heads and tuning up engines. Mr. Wilde was unable to say what was the nature of the rot in the wood spliced on to the original part of the bressummer, but he considered the stain on the original part of the beam to be evidence of dry rot. Dad and Uncle Will got the idea of splicing a length of manila rope to a 3/4-inch diameter ‘6 x 7’ construction wire rope. There are a variety of connectors available that allow you to splice the ropes end to end, in a T-shape, or in a Y-shape. Other activities which have passed out of vogue were rabbit skinning, poultry dressing and rope splicing. This alleviates the need to splice the 115V cable so you can pass through the rear panel from inside the case, thus making for a cleaner installation. Synonyms interweave, braid, plait, entwine, intertwine, interlace, knit, mesh 1.1 Join (pieces of timber, film, or tape) at the ends. commercials can be spliced in later I was splicing together a video from the footage on opium-growing Example sentencesExamples The frame jumps, shakes and flickers as if the film were badly spliced together, but this annoying defect only happens two or three times during the film. Whether they simply spliced in interview footage into the commentary or Tommy simply tells the same stories exactly the same way I don't know. Many scenes on the field were filmed with the real players, and much stock footage of Sayers and Piccolo in action are also spliced in. They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul. Oh sure, there are newsreel interviews and radio Q & As with each of the boys, but it's all out-of-context content, material removed from its original entity and spliced in to make this movie seem more authentic. What is provided is Demme's commentary with comments recorded in interviews with Jung spliced in, balanced about 90-10 in Demme's favor. Unfortunately, Freeman's comments were recorded separately and spliced in. This is the director's cut of the film, where about four minutes of extra scenes are spliced back into the film. The lengthy performance numbers seem almost spliced in from another movie, and the narrative flow gets lost every time the film detours into a concert hall. So I learned how to splice film and I got rather good at it. There's also some material about a bus and a museum theft that makes no sense at all, and feels spliced in from another film. For the early film-makers, such as Georges Melies and the Lumiere brothers, editing and being able to splice film was part of how to put scenes together. ‘On The Set Action’ is a very short music video-ish feature that shows clips from the film spliced with behind-the-scenes footage. But just a few years ago, he would have had to splice reel-to-reel audio tapes to make his test materials - several times, in order to get randomized presentation orders. Not content with delving into various mediums with which to present their releases, which in the past have been anything from 8 track cartridges to spliced tape segments. Film-makers have dubbed songs over personal footage to create their own music videos while others have spliced sections of different films together to create new plots. The scenes are spliced in throughout the presentation, so you will not come across many entirely new scenes, though a few do exist, but not of great length. This softness seems in part to be intentional in order to replicate the grainy news and other stock footage which is occasionally spliced in. Are you constantly shooting a scene multiple times in multiple ways and then splicing your favorite pieces together in the editing room? Students then need to decide on how best to select and splice lengths of film into a single piece and edit it until it becomes a unified movie. 1.2Genetics Join or insert (a gene or gene fragment). Example sentencesExamples In higher eukaryotes, introns are spliced out of protein-coding mRNAs by the spliceosome, a massive complex comprising five non-coding RNAs and about 200 proteins. Mammalian genomes contain a large number of alternatively spliced genes that have multiple ‘variable’ first exons. The set of genes with conserved alternatively spliced exons therefore serves as a function-matched control for comparison to genes with genome-specific alternatively spliced exons. Mendel did not splice genes; he didn't actually control anything at all. To minimize redundancy, short sequences of fewer than 20 amino acid residues were excluded, and only one such sequence from each set of homologous alternatively spliced genes was retained. nounsplaɪssplīs A union of two ropes, pieces of timber, or similar materials spliced together at the ends. Example sentencesExamples Special metal plywood clips will add stability to the splices where the sheets meet between rafters. All that remains is to fasten the bow to a tuft of hair, using the ends of the center splice to tie the knot. The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes. The height of the forms and the tapering of the tower necessitated mechanical rebar splices. The fabrication was done so well that at first glance the splice isn't noticeable; closer inspection, however, reveals two sets of dorsal fins. Panel size is derived from the 1.5m width of the metal coil and the desire for a surface without splices, yielding 1.14m square panels with folded returns. Thanks to the suspension tops and diagonal drop-down field splices, the fill-in pieces were successfully erected and positioned, says Budzius. Attenuation can be attributed to a number of elements, including fiber distance, number of patch panel connections and splices, dirty fiber connectors. Coils of lights are available in lengths of up to about 150 feet, along with all of the splice and power cord fittings, to allow you to make up just about whatever length and shape you're looking for. These work well as mending plates or for light-duty wood-to-wood splices. The use of integrated circuitry eliminates the necessity for hard wiring and greatly reduces the number of wires and splices in the vehicle also reducing the potential for problems. ‘Old hand’ instructors used it as they put us raw recruits through our paces: square-bashing, knots and splices, gunnery practice, what to do in the event of atomic or chemical attack, and the like. Avoid pieces that are bent out of shape or heavily restored with new splices or soldering. Then I felt the thickening of the rope - a splice! Origin Early 16th century: probably from Middle Dutch splissen, of unknown origin.
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