splice
/splʌɪs
/verb [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...
- 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.
- Vantec did a nice job splicing the cables, and binding them nicely with the rubber housing.
- Without the money for college, he started working for New York Telephone splicing cables in 1966.
Synonyms
interweave, braid, plait, entwine, intertwine, interlace, knit, mesh;
join, unite, connect, bind, fasten, tie;
Nautical marry
1.1Join (pieces of timber, film, or tape) at the ends: commercials can be spliced in later he had to splice the short music films together...
- 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.
- 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?
1.2 Genetics Join or insert (a gene or gene fragment): they have spliced a gene into tomatoes that improves flavour...
- 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.
- 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.
noun
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...
- 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.
- Thanks to the suspension tops and diagonal drop-down field splices, the fill-in pieces were successfully erected and positioned, says Budzius.
- Then I felt the thickening of the rope - a splice!
1.1The wedge-shaped tang of a cricket-bat handle, forming a joint with the blade.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.
Phrases
get (or be) spliced
splice the main brace
Derivatives
splicer
/ noun ...- 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.
- With two buttons you can accomplish more than an afternoon with a pile of reel-to-reel tape, scissors and splicer.
- Having no splicer, Markopoulos edited the film with a magnifying glass, cellophane tape an a razor blade.
Origin
Early 16th century: probably from Middle Dutch splissen, of unknown origin.