splice

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To join (two pieces of film, for example) at the ends.
2. v. To join (ropes, for example) by interweaving strands.
3. v. To join (pieces of wood) by overlapping and binding at the ends.
4. v. To join together or insert (segments of DNA or RNA) so as to form new genetic combinations or alter a genetic structure.
5. v. Slang To join in marriage: They went to Las Vegas to get spliced.
6. n. A joining by splicing.
7. n. A place where parts have been spliced.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To unite or join together, as two ropes or the parts of a rope by interweaving the strands of the ends; also, to unite or join together by overlapping, as two pieces of timber, metal, or other material. See splice, n.
2. To join in marriage; marry.
3. n. The joining together of two ropes or parts of a rope by interweaving part of the untwisted strands of each, or the union so effected. The short splice is used for a rope where it is not to pass through blocks. The long splice or round splice is made by unlaying the ends of ropes that are to be joined together and following the lay of one rope with a strand of the other until all the strands are used, and then neatly tucking the ends through the strands so that the size of the rope will not be changed. This occupies a great extent of rope, but by the three joinings being fixed at a distance from one another the increase of bulk is diminished, hence it is adapted to run through the sheave-hole of a block, etc. The eye-splice or ring-splice forms a sort of eye or circle at the end of a rope, and is used for splicing in thimbles, etc. See cut under eye-splice.
4. n. The junction of two pieces of wood or metal by overlapping and bolting or otherwise fastening the ends; a scarf. See cut under scarf, 2.
5. n. In cricket, that part of the handle of the bat which fits into the blade.

Wiktionary

1. n. nautical A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
2. n. electrical The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. n. cricket That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
4. n. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
5. v. 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.
6. v. 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.
7. v. To unite in marriage.
8. v. figuratively To unite as if splicing.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. 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. v. 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. v. Slang To unite in marriage.
4. n. A junction or joining made by splicing.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. perform a marriage ceremony
2. n. a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together
3. v. join the ends of
4. n. joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together
5. v. join together so as to form new genetic combinations
6. v. join by interweaving strands