splice · Contextualize

Etymology

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.

borrowed from splissen

Definitions

A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3
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.
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1. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
2. The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining…
  The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.
3. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the…
  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.
4. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by…
  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.
5. 8
  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.
  - Ah! thinkin’ o’ gettin’ spliced, you two?
6. 9
  To unite as if splicing.
  - He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.
7. To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
8. To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for splice. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.