splice
/ˈsplɐɪ̯s/UK/ˈsplaɪ̯s/
splice noun: a junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
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Noun
splice (plural splices)
- A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- 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.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
Verb
splice (third-person singular simple present splices, present participle splicing, simple past and past participle spliced)
- 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.
- 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.
- Synonyms:
- tail
- To unite in marriage.
- But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
- Ah! thinkin’ o’ gettin’ spliced, you two?1937, Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon
- To unite as if splicing.
- He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.
- To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.
splice meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
splice in Tamil
- பின்னவிணைவு, பின்னல்மூட்டு
splice in Bengali
- জোড়া দেওয়া, সংযুক্ত করা
splice in Malayalam
- inter-weave, braid, plait
- പിരിച്ചുകൂട്ടുക, ഇഴയിട്ടു കൂട്ടിച്ചേർക്കുക, പിന്നിക്കെട്ടുക, ഇഴചേർത്തുപിരിക്കുക, രജ്ജൂകരിക്കുക, കയറാക്കുക
splice in Kannada
- ಒಟ್ಟುಗೂಡಿಸು, ಗಂಟುಹಾಕು
More languagesFewer languages
- splice in Sinhala
- පූට්ටුකරනවා pūṭṭukaranawā
Examples of splice in a sentence
- Many studies had demonstrated that circRNAs could regulate the splicing, transcription, posttranscription, and activation of protein.
- A perverb splices the first half of one proverb, or saying, with the second half of another.
- The equipment uses the light received to align the two parts before splicing.
Synonyms of splice
Forms of splice
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | splices |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | splices |
| present participle | splicing |
| past participle | spliced |
| past | spliced |
Origin of splice
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.
Words formed from splice
- 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
Phrases with splice
Words that rhyme with splice
Questions about splice
- What does splice mean?
- Splice means a junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- What is splice in Tamil?
- Splice in Tamil is பின்னவிணைவு, பின்னல்மூட்டு. See Splice meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is splice?
- Splice can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce splice?
- Splice is pronounced /ˈsplaɪ̯s/ (UK).
- What is the plural of splice?
- The plural of splice is splices.
Words near splice in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: splice (page history and authors); splice (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); splice (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); splice (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); splice (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); පූට්ටුකරනවා (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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