splice

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  1. transitive verb To join (two pieces of film, for example) at the ends.
  2. transitive verb To join (ropes, for example) by interweaving strands.
  3. transitive verb To join (pieces of wood) by overlapping and binding at the ends.
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  • This 'splice' variant splits the table lengthwise, joining Canadian Birch in White with a Jacobian stained Walnut. —  DESIGNSPOTTER
  • Inspectors discovered a crack in a plate of steel called a "splice-plate." —  Cincinnati Local News Headlines | WCPO.com
  • The tax would make strategies that splice orders into hundreds of smaller trades more costly. —  News from www.rep-am.com
  • An important question addressed relates to the extent of protein isoforms that may lack any known function in the cell. (ii) We present a database that reports differences in protein signatures among human splice-mediated protein isoform sequences. —  BioMed Central - Latest articles
  • That woman acts like she comes from some mystical Tolkien / Capra gene-splice of f*cking Middle —  Smokin' Joe Carnahan
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  1. Obsolete Dutch splissen, from Middle Dutch.

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  1. = Old French *esplisser, espisser, French épisser = Swedish splissa = Danish splidse, spledse, spleise, splice, from Middle Dutch splissen, an assimilated form of splitsen, Dutch splitsen, splice; so called with reference to the splitting of the strands of the rope; with formative -s, from Middle Dutch splitten, splijten, Dutch splijten, split, = Middle High German splīzen, German spleissen, split: see split. The G. splissen, splitzen, splice, may be a secondary form of spleissen, split, and this itself the source of the Old French and the D., Swedish, etc., forms; or it may be from the D.
  2. from splice, v.
 

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