Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /splaɪs/
splice (plural splices)
- (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
- (electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
- (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
- Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
- (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
- French: épissure
- German: Verbindung
- Russian: сращивание
- Spanish: empalme
splice (splices, present participle splicing; 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.
- (slang) To unite in marriage.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3
- 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, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3
- (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
- He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.
- (genetics) To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
- German: spleißen
- Spanish: empalmar
- Portuguese: emendar
- Spanish: empalmar
- Portuguese: misturar
- French: épisser
- Spanish: empalmar
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