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Definition: Splice |
SpliceNoun1. A junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together; "the break was due to an imperfect splice". 2. Joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together. Verb1. 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". 3. Join together so as to form new genetic combinations; "splice genes". 4. Join by interweaving strands; "Splice the wires". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "splice" was first used: 1524. (references) |
Note: Splice \Splice\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Spliced; Splicing.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | A device used for joining two or more conductors. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A connecting device with barrel(s)accommodating electrical conductor(s), with or without additional provision, to accommodate and secure the insulation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The butt-joint in a magnetic tape held by means of a strip of adhesive material. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Fine Arts | Is editing term meaning to join together two pieces of film so that one follows the other. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Join in rope made by intertwining ends of strands. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Joint in a paper or board in the cross direction made either by an adhesive or an adhesive strip:-to obtain a reel of the desired length, or-to permit, for example, in a converting machine, a continuous operation between the end of one reel and the beginning of the next. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Splice To marry. Very strangely, "splice" means to split or divide. The way it came to signify unite is this: Ropes' ends are first untwisted before the strands are interwoven. Joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands is "splicing" them. Splicing wood is joining two boards together, the term being borrowed from the sailor. (German,spliessen, to split.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | A. A joint made in a broken haulage rope. Splicing is a skilled job and the rope ends are unlaid for a length on each side of the break and reformed to a definite pattern b. Generally used to designate an insulated reconnection of wires of an electric cable after it has been cut. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Splice."
Synonyms: SpliceSynonyms: lap joint (n), splicing (n), marry (v), tie (v), wed (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Crossing | Twine, entwine, weave, inweave, twist, wreathe; anastomose, inosculate, dovetail, splice, link; lace, tat. |
Drunkenness | Verb: get drunk, be drunk; Adjective: see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. |
Interposition | Put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in, worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject, intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave, interlard, interdigitate, sandwich in, fit in, squeeze in; let in, dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate, smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain. |
Junction | Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span. |
Restoration | Repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up, patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw, heelpiece; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice, bind up wounds. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Splice |
| English words defined with "splice": Eye-splice ♦ Rail joint ♦ Skin grafting, Spliced, splicer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "splice": BAND BUILDER, BELT-MAKER HELPER, BIAS-MACHINE-OPERATOR HELPER ♦ CALENDER-LET-OFF HELPER, COILER, commercially available/to be, connector barrel ♦ DNA Restriction Enzymes ♦ extrinsic fiber loss, extrinsic fibre loss ♦ GLASS-BLOWING-LATHE OPERATOR ♦ Main-brace ♦ overhead service entrance conductors ♦ pocket builder, pony winder ♦ rewinder, REWINDER OPERATOR, roll winder, RUBBER-TUBING SPLICER, RUNNING RIGGER ♦ Splice the Main Brace, Spliceosomes, SPLICING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ temporary splice, TIRE BUILDER, AUTOMOBILE, twisted-loop splice ♦ WIRE-ROPE-SLING MAKER. (references) |
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| "Splice" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 73.68% of the time. "Splice" is used about 57 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 73.68% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 17.54% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.02% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.75% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 57 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Brazil | Splice do Brasil Telec e Eletronica S/A |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "splice": cut splice ♦ extrinsic splice losses ♦ Joint splice ♦ RNA Splice Sites ♦ splice fitting ♦ splice grafting ♦ splice the main brace ♦ To splice the main brace. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "splice": splice-graft. | |
Ending with "splice": cut-and-splice, Eye-splice. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "splice"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vend i ngjitur, thur (braid, convolve, enmesh, fence, knit, pleach, shut up, spin, stitch, twine, twist, weave), ngjitje (adhesion, agglutination, ascension, ascent, boost, clamber, climbing, contagion, elevation, gluing, Mount, osculation, soldering, sticking, transmission, up, upbeat, upgrade, welding), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attach, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, stick, transmit, weld), martohem (espouse, get married, make a match, marry, match, mate, noose), martesë (cross, espousal, marriage, match, matrimony, noose, nuptial, union, wedding, wedlock), lidhje me thurje, lidh (articulate, associate, bend, bind, buckle, bundle, colligate, concatenate, connect, couple, do up, dress, enfetter, fasten, glue, hitch, hook up, interconnect, join, joint, lace, ligate, link, moor, regard, relate, respect, solder, string, switch on, tie, tie down, truss, unite), bashkoj (add together, ally, amalgamate, band together, close up, combine, compound, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, consolidate, couple, fuse, fuze, glue, hook up, inosculate, integrate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, piece, piece together, pool, solder, unify, unite, weld), bashkim (affiliation, alignment, alliance, amalgamation, coalescence, community, compound, confederation, conflux, conjunction, consolidation, coupling, fusion, hookup, integration, interconnection, interflow, interfusion, joinder, joining, joint, junction, league, ligature, linkage, merger, reconcilability, reunion, seam, soldering, unification, union, welding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لصق (affix, cement, fasten, fix, glue, gum, paste, patch, post, stick, stick down, unite), وصل حبلين, تلسين (scarf), زواج (espousal, getting married, marriage, match, matrimony, union, wedding, wedlock), جدل طرفين, جدالة, ربط برباط الزوجية (tie), شرب كأس. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съединявам (aggregate, band, butt, clutch, compound, concatenate, conjoin, couple, impale, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, join up, knee, knit, link, marry, mate, piece, piece together, rejoin, tag, tie, tie in, unite), скобка (staple), свързвам в брак (tie, unite, yoke), снаждане, снаждам въже, снадка, сплетка, оженвам (give in marriage, hitch, marry, marry off, mate, pair, turn off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 接合 (fayed, Spliced, splicing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spojovat (concatenate, connect, knit, ply), splétat (plait), slepovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | stødforbindelse (butt joint), stød med laskeplader (butt joint with splice plate), stød (push), splejsning (interlacing, splicing), splejsested, sammenklæbning (conglutination, glue line, splicing), samling (collection), laskepladeforbindelse (butt joint with splice plate), lask (fishplate), klæbested, kabelforbinder, forbindingsmuffe (scarph box). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stuik (butt joint, shock, stack, stool), stripverbinding (butt joint with splice plate), stompe verbinding (butt joint), splits, vloeinaad (joint), verbindingsmof (scarph box, sleeve), naad (seam, suture), lassen (weld), lasplaatverbinding (butt joint with splice plate), las (glue line, joint, low-altitude observation satellite, pass, rail joint, run, weld, weld bead), gietnaad (burr, flash, joint, overflow, spew), aftakking (bough, branch, branching), aansluiting (connection, joining, junction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیوندکردن , بهم تابیدن (Intersubjective), باهم متصل کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pujos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | collure, épissure (spliced sling, splicing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Klebung (splicing), kleben (adhere, cleave, cleft, cling, cloven, glue, gum, hang, hanging, paste, stick, tape, to paste, to splice), Verbindungsstelle (join, joint, junction), Spleiß (splinter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύνδεση (attachment, conjunction, connection, coupling, hookup, junction, ligature, link up, spanning, syndication, tap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אחוי (fastened, fastening, knitting, mended, mending, stiched), חבור (attached to, connection, joined, joint, junction, linkage, linked). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | összekapcsol (associate, associated, butt, clip, concatenate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple, interconnect, join, join up, joint, link, put together, relate, staple, to abut, to associate, to bracket, to clasp, to conjugate, to couple, to interconnect, to interlock, to link, to relate, to splice, to staple, to unite), összefonás, összefon (enlace, entwine, inlace, interlace, interweave, interwind, pleach, to braid, to implicate, to plait, to splice, to twist, to weave, wove, woven). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | impiombatura. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ス"ンドル油 (souffle, Sphinx, spindle oil, spline, spool, spooler, spoon, spoon-feeding, Sputnik, staple fiber, sub-economizer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | スプライス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | taah (adhere, anchylosis, cement, coalesce, coalescence, concrete, conjugate; conjugation, conjunction, filling, set, solder, soldering, sweat, weld, welding), spleise, spleisal, slashal (lash, whip), slash (whip, whip of cable), skerrey, skerin (scarf). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icesplay costura (dressmaking, needlework, scar, seam). (various references) se cãsãtori (couple, espouse, get married, intermarry, marry, mate, settle, Wed), matisire, matisare, matisa, lipiturã, lipi (affix, agglutinate, apply, close, glue, gum, imprint, paste, paste up, patch a tyre, post, seal, solder, stick), cununie (wedding), cãsãtorie (espousal, marriage, matrimony, tie, union, wedlock), cãsãtori (marry, match, mate, pair, settle, Wed), înnãditurã, înnãdi, îmbinare cap la cap, îmbina cap la cap. (various references) сращивать концы, сращивать, сращивание каната, стык (butting, butt-joint, joint, junction), соединять (amalgamate, associate, band, band together, clutch, coalesce, combine, compound, conjoin, connect, couple, incorporate, inosculate, interlock, join, joint, knit, link, merge, mix, piece together, reunite, span, unite, yoke together), соединение (articulation, butt-joint, call, catenation, coalescence, combination, communication, composition, compound, conjugation, conjunction, copulation, coupling, halving, hookup, join, joinder, joining, joint, junction, juncture, liason, ligature, link up, linkage, seam, synthesis), сплеснивать, сплеснивание, сплесень, сплетать концы. (various references) spojiti (aggregate, bring together, combine, connect, couple, fuse, hook up, join, joint, knit, link, lump, merge, pair, piece, piece together, pin together, ply, rabbet, slur, tap), spoj dobijen uplitanjem, splet (plexus, rove, tissue), vezati brakom, uplesti (enmesh, entwine, involve, twine, twist, weave into, work in, wreathe), pletenica (braid, plait, twist). (various references) empalme (abutment, combination, connection, connexion, fork, hard on, joint, junction, junction box, merge, road junction, scarf, stand, union). (various references) stumskarv (butt joint), stumfog (butt joint), splitsning (splicing), splitsa (splicing), splits, skarvhylsa, skarv (cormorant, interval, join, joint, seam), laskskarv (butt joint with splice plate), fog (joint, justice, lap, reason, right, seam, suture), bandskarv. (various references) แต่งงาน (คำไม่เป็นทางการ) (mate), การต่อกัน, ต่อเข้า. (various references) uçlarını birleştirmek, iki ucunu birleştirme, geçme (contagion, dissemination, encroachment, fitting, intervention, lapse, pass, passage, passing, permeation, slip on, tenon, transit, transmigration, whirligig), evlendirmek (espouse, marry, marry off, match, mate, pair, pair off, tie, Wed, yoke), eklemek (add, adjoin, affix, annex, append, attach, insert, interlard, interpolate, join, join together, joint, link, link up, piece, put in, put on, put to, run in, slap on, subjoin, suffix, superimpose, supplement, tack, throw in, write in), ek yeri (commissure, join, joint, juncture, scarf, suture), birbirine eklemek, birbirine ekleme, çok içki içme. (various references) зросток, зрощувати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle Dutch | 1100-1500 | splissen. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "splice": spliced, splicer, splicers, splices. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "splice": resplice. (additional references) | |
Words containing "splice": respliced, resplices. (additional references) | |
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"Splice" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lswlike, plice, pspice, salice, slicen, solice, sollice, spica, spiche, splake, splane, splicer, splier, splime, splite, sulice, supalite. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "splice" (pronounced splī"s) |
| 3 | -l ī" s | lice, slice. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-p-s" | |
-1 letter: ceils, clips, epics, piles, plies, sepic, slice, slipe, speil, spice, spiel, spile. | |
-2 letters: ceil, cels, ceps, clip, epic, ices, isle, leis, lice, lies, lipe, lips, lisp, pecs, pice, pics, pies, pile, plie, sice, sipe, slip, spec, spic. | |
-3 letters: cel, cep, cis, els, ice, lei, lie, lip, lis, pec, pes, pic, pie, pis, psi. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-p-s" | |
+1 letter: eclipse, pelvics, pencils, pickles, plaices, polices, special, spicule, splenic, spliced, splicer, splices. | |
+2 letters: allspice, calipees, calipers, capelins, clippers, clupeids, compiles, complies, crimples, cripples, disciple, displace, eclipsed, eclipses, eclipsis, especial, exciples, misplace, panicles, pedicels, pedicles, pelicans, penicils, pinocles, polemics, policies, pollices, popsicle, preslice, prickles, replicas, resplice, semplice, septical, slipcase, specials, spiculae, spicules, spiracle, splicers, surplice, tieclasp. | |
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