splice

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• 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.
• To unite in marriage.
• To unite as if splicing.
• To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• comma splice
• cut splice
• cunt splice
• eye splice

Origin

• Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten, German spleißen, Spliss, French épisser . 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”.