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splice

UK/ˈsplɐɪ̯s/ US/ˈsplaɪ̯s/ rare slang
verb (4) noun (2)

verb

1.

join the ends of

  • “splice film”
2.

perform a marriage ceremony

  • “The minister married us on Saturday”
  • “We were wed the following week”
  • “The couple got spliced on Hawaii”
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3.

join together so as to form new genetic combinations

  • “splice genes”
4.

join by interweaving strands

  • “Splice the wires”

noun

1.

a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together

  • “the break was due to an imperfect splice”
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2.

joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together

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Origin

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.

Phrases

  • bent on a splice
  • comma splice
  • cunt splice
  • cut splice
  • eye splice
  • lineman splice
  • lineman's splice
  • mechanical splice
  • splice the mainbrace

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