splice

Meaning

Noun

1. A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
2. The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
5. The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

Verb

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. (slang) To unite in marriage.
4. To unite as if splicing.
5. To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.
6. To add, remove and/or replace several array/data elements in one operation.

Synonyms

join

connect

joint

marry

lap joint

bind up

link

🔗

mend

tie

link up

splicing

interlock

couple

👫

attach

unite

wed

splice bar

brace

hook up

connection

extend

braid

miter

splice bar

junction

associate

knot

🪢

gum

hallow

heir

hookup

implant

inaugurate

interlace

intertwine

interweave

juncture

knit

layup

leash

ligature

login

marriage

💍

mesh

montage

mortise

ordain

ordinate

paste

patch

piece

piggyback

pigtail

ply

rebate

relate

scab

scabbed

scion

sew up

shoot

span

spanning

sprout

stamp

stick

string

🪢

string up

subjoin

successor

suffix

supplement

symphysis

syndicate

syndication

tap

tessellate

twist

wedding

💒

yoke

adjunction

join together

crack

solder together

splice two timbers

string then by splicing

scarf joint

splice grafting

splice plate

split joint

shrink hole

twist joint

buttcover plate

bind off

ally

annex

append

ascribe

attachment

bind

bond

bud

clip

coalesce

cold joint

colligate

confer

conglutinate

conjoin

conjunction

connexion

coupler

coupling

dedicate

dovetail

engage

engraft

glue

graft

group

Pronounced as (IPA)

/splaɪs/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: splitsen

Cognate with German: spleißen

Cognate with French: épisser

In summary

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.