splicen.

Brit.

/splʌɪs/, U.S.

/splaɪs/

Etymology: < splice v. Compare Swedish spliss, splits.

a. A joining or union of two portions of rope, cable, cord, etc., effected by untwisting and interweaving the strands at the point of junction. Chiefly Nautical.The various kinds of splices are frequently denoted by a distinctive premodifier, as cut, drawing, ring, long, round, short (etc.) splice. See also eyesplice n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > splice

splice1627

eyesplice1769

Grecian splice1883

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > [noun] > splicing > a splice

round splice1627

splice1627

long splice1769

splicing1892

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > splice

splice1627

made eye1867

Grecian splice1883

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 26 Splicing is so to let one ropes end into another they shall be as firme as if they were but one rope, and this is called a round Splice; but the cut Splice is to let one into another with as much distance as you will.

1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 192 When an Eye is to be made at the end of a Rope, the ends of the Strands..are with a Fidd drawn into the ends of the other Ropes Strands and this is called a Splice.

1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) Make a Splice, and seaze the Ends down with some Sinnet.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) The long-splice..is much neater and smoother than the short-splice.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 291 Explanations of various kinds of splices..are given in Dana's Seaman's Manual.

1866 Evening Standard 13 July 3 The Atlantic Cable... The Great Eastern..will leave Berehaven this afternoon, arriving at the buoys..to-morrow morning, when the splice will be made.

1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling ix. 278 Where you have to tie, and untie,..your own splices.

in extended use.1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 172/2 The Vice-Admiral has got a hint from Sir —, to kick that wild splice, young Cringle, about a bit.

b. technical. A joining of two pieces of wood, metal girders or rails, concrete beams, etc., formed by overlapping and securing the ends; a scarf-joint.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > splinter or chip

astela1330

spelkc1440

spile1513

spane1602

shive1661

flakec1720

splice1875

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > joint > types of

gemew?a1400

match-joint1683

matched joint1688

joggle1703

water joint1810

pin-joint1835

shackle-joint1837

screw shackle1847

through-joint1851

joggling1858

leg joint1858

splice1875

bed-joint1876

butting joint1887

saddle joint1901

contraction joint1909

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/1.

1877 Rep. & Awards Group XVIII U.S. Centennial Comm. Internat. Exhib. 1876 66 (caption) Rails and splices used on Pennsylvania Railroad and branches.

1892 L. de C. Berg Safe Building II. x. 113 In locating the rivets of a splice care should be taken not to weaken the original plate.

1934 Relf & Johansen Handbk. Aerodynamics (ed. 2) I. ix. 638 In splicing built-up or box spars the splices in the flanges should come at the points of inflection.

1951 R. D. Chellis Pile Foundations xi. 271 If piles are restrained throughout their full length in firm soil..a splice consisting of a full butt weld or single web and flange plates welded on in the field suffices.

1977 J. P. Cook Composite Construction Methods x. 209 In the usual steel frame, column sizes are normally kept constant for a height of two stories, with the column splice about 3 or 4 ft above the floor level.

c. Cricket. The v-shaped tang of a bat-handle, which forms a joint with the blade; the joint itself. Also in slang phrase to sit on (or upon) the splice, to play a cautious defensive game.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of batting

to play back1816

to step in1837

to play forward1851

to run out1858

slog1869

hang one's bat out to dry1895

to force the game1897

to farm the strike1901

to sit on (or upon) the splice1906

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > bat > parts of

pod1828

splice1906

under-edge1960

1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer ii. 44 The spliced handle was a later development, and some of the earliest splices were of ash.

1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer App. II. 352 To sit upon the splice, to play with too much caution, to deliberately refrain from scoring.

1912 Daily Mirror 9 July 14/2 Vidler sat icily on the splice, playing the right game and keeping up an end while Crutchley got runs.

1926 Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. Lord Hawke added the opinion that if there was the will to play the game and not to sit on the splice..we should see the matches brought to a conclusion.

1927 Punch 26 Jan. 108/1 ‘I don't think you're helping the score at all,’ I protested. ‘You're just sitting on your splice and leaving it all to me.’

1928 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 16/1 Stevens played the correct game by sitting on the splice for the first few overs.

1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 195/1 Cricketers who bought a new bat treated it almost with reverence... They oiled every part of it, except the handle and splice.

1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 79 Dexter, hooking at him, nearly returned a gentle catch off the splice.

1968 L. Frewin Best of Cricket's Fiction II. 267 There was a business-like look about him, the air of one who without being the least downhearted or inclined to sit upon the splice, was yet determined to take no foolish risks.

d. A joint made in editing or repairing film or magnetic or paper tape.

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > joint in editing film or tape

splice1923

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > [noun] > joint in film

splice1923

1923 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures (ed. 3) viii. 100 In making the splice care has to be observed to introduce the two pieces true to frame-line, gauge and marginal perforations.

1931 L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures 360 Blooping Patch, triangular or oval black section introduced over a splice in the positive sound track, to prevent the noise which the splice would otherwise cause.

1936 Words Oct. 6/1 Blooping is dying a film splice with ink sprayed from an airgun so that the splice will run through the projectors without making unnecessary noise.

1949 J. G. Frayne & H. Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 603 A program can be edited in advance by cutting out portions or inserting other portions, since splices in the tape cannot be heard.

1973 Screen Spring 43 Montage in the narrow sense (ie as an editing splice) has a diminishing importance in certain modern films.

2. slang. Union by marriage; a marriage; a wedding.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > [noun]

eeOE

weddingc1000

wivingOE

contractc1315

marriagec1325

matrimony1357

unionc1475

maritagec1478

briding1566

espousal1566

match1574

intermarriage1579

despousing1609

espousement1623

nuptial1630

coupling1641

splice1830

intermarrying1843

contraction1885

yokemating1891

1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. i. 91 She ben't five-and-twenty—she'll make a heavenly splice!

1862 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 54 Till the splice is made she's a right to please herself.

1876 J. G. Holland Story of Sevenoaks (new ed.) xxi. 303 I'm a little interested in her myself and I'm going to pay for the splice.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as splice manner, splice-work, etc.; splice-bar n. = splice-piece n. splice-grafting n. a method of grafting in which the scion and stock are cut obliquely and bound firmly together; whip- or tongue-grafting; hence splice-graft vb. splice-joint n. (see quots.). splice-piece n. (see quots.).

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > whip-grafting

splicing1608

whipping1629

whip-grafting1657

tongue-grafting1710

tonguing1763

splice-grafting1815

society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails

string-piece1789

carriage1816

chair1816

pedestal1816

surface plate1822

web1835

frog1837

switch-bar1837

snake-head1845

fish1847

fish-joint1849

plate nail1849

fishing-key1852

fish-plate1855

joint-chair1856

rail chair1864

railhead1868

lead1871

fish-bar1872

splice-piece1875

fish-plating1881

splice-jointa1884

splice-bar1894

1815 Trans. Hort. Soc. London (ed. 2) 1 239 The amputated parts [of the pear-stocks] were then accurately fitted and bound, as in splice, or whip-grafting, to scions of Pear Trees.

1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry II. 397 [Dryden's style is] never approached by a German splice-work of anapaests and iambics.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 288 Splice-grafting, tongue-grafting, or whip-grafting, is the mode most commonly adopted in all gardens where the stocks are not much larger in diameter than the scion.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 289 In splice-grafting the shoots of peaches, nectarines, and apricots.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/1 Splice-piece,..a fish-plate or break-joint piece at the junction of two rails.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 842/2 Splice joint, the connecting joints between rails on railways.

1894 Times 16 Aug. 6/4 Railway fish plates or splice bars.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

splicev.

Brit.

/splʌɪs/, U.S.

/splaɪs/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s splise, 1600s splash.

Etymology: < Middle Dutch splissen, of doubtful origin, but perhaps related to split v.; in the Continental languages now represented by Dutch dialect, Low German and German splissen, West Frisian splisse, North Frisian splesse, splasse, Swedish splissa; also German spleissen, splitsen, Dutch splitsen, Swedish splitsa, Danish splidse. The Dutch word is also the source of French épisser (†épicer), whence épissoir splicing-iron, and épissure a splice.

I. To bind or join.

a. transitive. To join (ropes, cables, lines, etc.) by untwisting and interweaving the strands of the ends so as to form one continuous length; to unite (two parts of the same rope) by interweaving the strands of one end into those of another part so as to form an eye or loop; to repair (rigging) in this way. Chiefly Nautical.Also const. with prepositions and adverbs, as into, round, together.

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > splice

shoot1499

splice1524

marry1815

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > ropework operations

splice1524

woold1616

stovea1625

parcel1625

serve1627

point1644

thrum1711

long-splice1863

1524–5 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 327 Paid for Splisyng of v bell Ropis, v d.

a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) To splice is to make fast the ends of Roapes one into the other by joining the strands at the ends of both the Roapes.

1633 T. James Strange Voy. 23 We went to worke..to splise our Cables.

1672 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 338 For splashing the bell-ropes, 4 d.

1675 E. Cocker Morals 15 All the Lines, made since Sol's Race began, Spliced into one, would prove too short to sound this bottomless..Sea.

1709 London Gaz. No. 4547/2 He spliced his Rigging, and repaired the Damages as fast as he could.

1795 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 14 Employed shifting our topsails and splicing our rigging.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 422 The two ends of these yarns he splices together.

1864 Soc. Sci. Rev. I. 266 As the sailor wants to be taught how to splice a rope or rove his tackle.

1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 213 I very soon ingratiated myself with the other men by teaching them to splice rope.

absolute.1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 80 Shew me the Gentleman, crys he, that can knot or splice, or make a Pudding as it should be?1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 213 I was rather surprised to find that they could not splice.

b. To form (an eye or knot) in a rope by splicing.

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > splice > form knot by splicing

splice1773

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > ropework operations > form by splicing

splice1773

1773 Life N. Frowde 24 I could not only go to any Part of the Vessel that I was bid, but splice a Knot and go aloft.

1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 72 One end [of the line] is bent on to the harpoon; the other (with an eye spliced in it) is left hanging out of the sternpost tub.

c. to splice the main-brace: see mainbrace n.¹ 2.

a. To join (two pieces of timber, etc.) by overlapping or scarfing the two ends together in such a way as to form one continuous length; to fasten together in this way; to graft by a similar process. Also, to fasten together (metal girders and rails, concrete beams, etc.) similarly.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > join > in specific manner or with specific joint

cocket1565

rabbet1565

splice1626

rebate1770

joggle1820

jump1885

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 3 The Carpenter..is to..[be] euer ready for calking, breaming..fishing or spliceing the Masts or Yards.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 A Iury-mast, which is made with yards, rouftrees, or what they can, splised or fished together.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) To Splice among Gardeners, is to graft the Top of one Tree into the Stock of another, by cutting them sloping, and fastening them together.

1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 408 The branches of the old tree thus spliced in the rind yield an uncommon quantity of fruit.

1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 128 A very noble fir.., which was not spliced in the common mode, but was converted in it's full dimensions, into the bowsprit of the Britannia.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 209 East and Tom were..splicing a favourite old fives' bat.

1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) xvii The breaking of our waggon-tongue..delayed our journey. There was plenty of good hickory-wood,..and Jake..soon spliced it again.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/2 Splint, a wooden strip for splicing and stiffening a fractured bar or beam.

1892 L. de C. Berg Safe Building II. x. 113 If any part of a girder..is spliced, made of two parts, the number of rivets each side of splice..should be made sufficient to transfer the full strength of original plate across the joint.

1913 W. H. Sellew Steel Rails iv. 263 The stiffness of the rail that is to be spliced.

1951 R. D. Chellis Pile Foundations ix. 201 (caption) Exposing reinforcing preparatory to splicing a large precast concrete pile.

1976 R. Chudley Construction Technol. III. vii. 75 Where members of the frame are joined or spliced together the connections are generally mechanical (nut and bolt).

b. transferred. To unite in this manner by means of surgery or natural healing.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > unite fractures, wounds, etc.

consoudec1400

consolid1483

solder1495

conglutine?1541

reconsolidate?1541

consolidate1563

agglutinate1589

solidate1657

splice1755

1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 178 Surgeon Macpherson..having thus spliced the fox's tail to the little skill he had in surgery.

1867 H. Latham Black & White 87 The glass cases of broken bones,..as poor mother nature had tried to glue them together and splice them again, gave some idea of the horrors of war.

c. In various transferred and figurative uses: To unite, combine, join, mend. Also spec. in Biology, to join or insert (a gene or gene fragment).

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the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)]

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bootc1330

correctc1374

menda1375

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dighta1400

restorea1400

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emendc1485

richa1500

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chastisea1513

rectifya1529

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remed1590

reclaim1593

renew1608

retrieve1625

recruit1673

raccommode1754

splice1803

doctor1829

remediate1837

right-side1847

sort1948

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)]

gatherc725

fayOE

samc1000

join1297

conjoinc1374

enjoinc1384

assemble1393

compound1393

sociea1398

annex?c1400

ferec1400

marrowc1400

combinec1440

annectc1450

piece?c1475

combind1477

conjunge1547

associate1578

knit1578

sinew1592

splinter1597

patch1604

accouple1605

interjoina1616

withjoina1627

league1645

contignate1651

to bring on1691

splice1803

pan1884

suture1886

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [verb (intransitive)] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes

restitute1945

replicate1952

splice1975

1803 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1804) 7 68 And when they would buy, a whole company splice Their pence.., to make up the price.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 339 My legacy consisted of a broken fortune to splice.

1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 141 The long Tale, renew'd when last they met, Is splic'd anew, and is unfinish'd yet.

1828 Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) II. 154 He splices so many subjects upon one another, it is difficult to make a selection.

1890 D. G. Mitchell Eng. Lands ii. 74 We know..that he takes to the work of mending plays, and splicing good parts together.

1975 Nature 18 Dec. 563/1 The genes to be cloned would first be spliced on to either a bacterial plasmid..or on to the DNA of bacteriophage lambda which would then infect the bacterium.

1977 Sci. News 29 Jan. 70 The controversial research in question is a class of experiments that..include splicing the genes of a virus or bacteria to partially purified DNA from mammals or birds..known to produce potent toxins or pathogens.

1979 Newsweek 4 June 64 One valuable product has already resulted from the work: human insulin, manufactured by splicing fragments of DNA that manufacture the hormone in humans into an intestinal bacterium.

d. To bind, fasten, fix firmly or securely.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > make fast [verb (transitive)] > fasten or fix

steek?c1335

stick1372

ficchec1374

plant1381

inficche1382

fix14..

graft1531

graff1536

stick1586

rivet1600

stay1627

rig1835

splice1847

fixate1885

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iii. iii. 30 If you were in the middle of the desert and the least grumbling, you would be spliced on a camel.

e. To make a splice or joint in (a length of film or magnetic or paper tape); to join (film or tape) in, on or up. Occasionally intransitive (or absol.).

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society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > make splice or joint in length of film or tape

splice1912

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > edit [verb (transitive)] > make joint in film

splice1912

1912 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures xii. 137 Occasionally when a film is being run through the projector it becomes severed by some means or other. Before it can be used again the break must be repaired by splicing the two parts together.

1931 Wilkinson & Reis in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures xiv. 200 When film is spliced on a standard splicing machine, the splice crosses the sound track at right angles to its length.

1958 W. E. Stewart Magn. Recording Techn. ii. 42 The wire, still useful in some applications, cannot be spliced so easily as tape.

1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxiv. 156 The film lab had been very thorough, they had spliced on to the end of the film the incident of my arrest.

1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador x. 140 The odd faux pas..would have to be cut; splice in a bedroom scene there.

1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 174 Snip a bit off this [tape] and splice it up.

1978 L. Davidson Chelsea Murders xxiii. 141 He put in six solid hours at the editing... He compared and cut and spliced till two in the morning.

1978 G. McDonald Fletch's Fortune xxx. 201 ‘I need one of those cassette tape recorders. You know, with a tape splicer. I need to splice some tape.’ ‘Mine doesn't have a splicer.’

1980 S. Hockey Guide Computer Applic. Humanities ii. 25 Sections of corrected [paper] tape can be spliced or glued into the original.

f. Cricket. To strike (the ball) with the splice of the bat, as a mishit.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke

take1578

stop1744

nip1752

block1772

drive1773

cut1816

draw1816

tip1816

poke1836

spoon1836

mow1844

to put up1845

smother1845

sky1849

crump1850

to pick up1851

pull1851

skyrocket1851

swipe1851

to put down1860

to get away1868

smite1868

snick1871

lift1874

crack1882

smack1882

off-drive1888

snip1890

leg1892

push1893

hook1896

flick1897

on-drive1897

chop1898

glance1898

straight drive1898

cart1903

edge1904

tonk1910

sweep1920

mishook1934

middle1954

square-drive1954

tickle1963

square-cut1976

slash1977

splice1982

paddle1986

1982 Guardian 19 Feb. 22/2 Botham went for a swinging pull shot, and spliced it tamely but safely to mid~wicket.

3. slang.

a. To join in matrimony; to marry. Chiefly in passive.

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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage

wedOE

join1297

spousec1325

bind1330

couplea1340

to put togethera1387

conjoin1447

accouple1548

matea1593

solemnize1592

espouse1599

faggot1607

noose1664

to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700

rivet1700

to tie the knot1718

buckle1724

unite1728

tack1732

wedlock1737

marry1749

splice1751

to turn off1759

to tie up1894

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. vii. 52 Trunnion! Trunnion! turn out and be spliced, or lie still and be damned.

1788 in F. Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2)

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. i. 2 My two sisters are both to be spliced to young squireens in the neighbourhood.

1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xlii. 307 Alfred and I intended to be married in this way almost from the first; we never meant to be spliced in the humdrum way of other people.

1873 A. I. Ritchie Wks. (1891) I. 148 There goes a parson... Shall I run after him and get him to splice us off-hand?

b. intransitive. To get married. Also const. with.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)]

weda1225

marrya1325

spousec1390

to make matrimonyc1400

intermarry1528

contract1530

to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535

to make a match1547

yoke1567

match1569

mate1589

to go to church (with a person)1600

to put one's neck in a noosec1600

paira1616

to join giblets1647

buckle1693

espouse1693

to change (alter) one's condition1712

to tie the knot1718

to marry out1727

to wedlock it1737

solemnize1748

forgather1768

unite1769

connubiate1814

conjugalize1823

connubialize1870

splice1874

to get hitched up1890

to hook up1903

1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxiii. 216 I heerd say as he was a goin' to splice with a gal that could pray like a angel afire.

1875 J. G. Holland Sevenoaks xii. 155 Jim, be ye goin' to splice?

1981 T. Heald Murder at Moose Jaw xii. 144 If the old flapper spliced with the colonel she stood to lose a million dollars.

4. intransitive. To fit into something with a splice.

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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > be made fast or fixed [verb (intransitive)] > be fastened or fixed > be fixed in with a splice

splice1882

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 125 The end [of the spilling line] splicing into the head of the sail.

II. To split.

†5. transitive and intransitive. To split. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure

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rivea1400

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chapc1460

chip1508

gaig1584

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chink1599

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slent1605

slat1607

sliver1608

speld1616

crevice1624

checka1642

chicka1642

crack1664

splice1664

sleave-

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 74 Making the stroke upward, and with a sharp Bill, so as the weight of an untractable bough do not splice and carry the bark with it.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 92 In arms of Timber which are very great, chop a nick under it close to the Boal, so meeting it with the down-right strokes, it will be cut without splicing.

Derivatives

spliced adj.

/splaɪst/ formed, joined, repaired, or reinforced by splicing.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > having undergone other processes

alumed1574

splinted1616

scribed1678

cold-drawn1716

droved1754

cool-drawn1774

swaged1842

spliced1859

chiselled1873

steam-cured1909

refinished1910

precast1914

fibrillated1929

plasticized1937

foamed1943

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [adjective] > type of joint > joined by

joggled1823

spliced1859

pin-jointed1872

1859 T. P. Shaffner Telegr. Man. xli. 597 Fig. 13 is the two ends spliced, having first been cleaned.

1867 G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground iii. 44 A new handle can be inserted..and the ‘spliced bat’ will be quite as good as before—indeed, many players have their bats spliced at first, thinking it a great improvement.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 250 Though a spliced staff e'en as strong may be As one ne'er broken.

1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Suppl. 7/2 A spliced Cricket Bat.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/1 Spliced Eye, the rope is bent around a thimble, and the end spliced into the standing part.

1891 W. G. Grace Cricket ii. 42 This one [sc. a bat] had a spliced handle with a strip of whalebone down the centre of it, and was very much prized.

1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 243/3 Men's Seamless Cotton Half Hose... Spliced heels and toes.

1931 Wilkinson & Reis in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures xiv. 201 A similar section of silent track, matching the average density of the spliced tracks, is..cemented into the hole.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 69 Spliced heel, heel reinforced with the same fabric as the stocking.

1970 E.-O. Libuda tr. Heinhold Power Cables & Applic. xlvi. 457 Brazing is necessary for spliced connections [in copper conductors].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	splice
释义	splicen. Brit. /splʌɪs/, U.S. /splaɪs/ Etymology: < splice v. Compare Swedish spliss, splits. 1. a. A joining or union of two portions of rope, cable, cord, etc., effected by untwisting and interweaving the strands at the point of junction. Chiefly Nautical.The various kinds of splices are frequently denoted by a distinctive premodifier, as cut, drawing, ring, long, round, short (etc.) splice. See also eyesplice n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > splice splice1627 eyesplice1769 Grecian splice1883 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > [noun] > splicing > a splice round splice1627 splice1627 long splice1769 splicing1892 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > a bond, tie, or fastening > [noun] > splice splice1627 made eye1867 Grecian splice1883 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 26 Splicing is so to let one ropes end into another they shall be as firme as if they were but one rope, and this is called a round Splice; but the cut Splice is to let one into another with as much distance as you will. 1685 N. Boteler Six Dialogues Sea-services 192 When an Eye is to be made at the end of a Rope, the ends of the Strands..are with a Fidd drawn into the ends of the other Ropes Strands and this is called a Splice. 1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) Make a Splice, and seaze the Ends down with some Sinnet. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine (at cited word) The long-splice..is much neater and smoother than the short-splice. 1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 291 Explanations of various kinds of splices..are given in Dana's Seaman's Manual. 1866 Evening Standard 13 July 3 The Atlantic Cable... The Great Eastern..will leave Berehaven this afternoon, arriving at the buoys..to-morrow morning, when the splice will be made. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling ix. 278 Where you have to tie, and untie,..your own splices. in extended use.1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log xviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 172/2 The Vice-Admiral has got a hint from Sir —, to kick that wild splice, young Cringle, about a bit. b. technical. A joining of two pieces of wood, metal girders or rails, concrete beams, etc., formed by overlapping and securing the ends; a scarf-joint. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > splinter or chip astela1330 spelkc1440 spile1513 spane1602 shive1661 flakec1720 splice1875 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > joint > types of gemew?a1400 match-joint1683 matched joint1688 joggle1703 water joint1810 pin-joint1835 shackle-joint1837 screw shackle1847 through-joint1851 joggling1858 leg joint1858 splice1875 bed-joint1876 butting joint1887 saddle joint1901 contraction joint1909 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/1. 1877 Rep. & Awards Group XVIII U.S. Centennial Comm. Internat. Exhib. 1876 66 (caption) Rails and splices used on Pennsylvania Railroad and branches. 1892 L. de C. Berg Safe Building II. x. 113 In locating the rivets of a splice care should be taken not to weaken the original plate. 1934 Relf & Johansen Handbk. Aerodynamics (ed. 2) I. ix. 638 In splicing built-up or box spars the splices in the flanges should come at the points of inflection. 1951 R. D. Chellis Pile Foundations xi. 271 If piles are restrained throughout their full length in firm soil..a splice consisting of a full butt weld or single web and flange plates welded on in the field suffices. 1977 J. P. Cook Composite Construction Methods x. 209 In the usual steel frame, column sizes are normally kept constant for a height of two stories, with the column splice about 3 or 4 ft above the floor level. c. Cricket. The v-shaped tang of a bat-handle, which forms a joint with the blade; the joint itself. Also in slang phrase to sit on (or upon) the splice, to play a cautious defensive game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (intransitive)] > types of batting to play back1816 to step in1837 to play forward1851 to run out1858 slog1869 hang one's bat out to dry1895 to force the game1897 to farm the strike1901 to sit on (or upon) the splice1906 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > equipment > [noun] > bat > parts of pod1828 splice1906 under-edge1960 1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer ii. 44 The spliced handle was a later development, and some of the earliest splices were of ash. 1906 A. E. Knight Compl. Cricketer App. II. 352 To sit upon the splice, to play with too much caution, to deliberately refrain from scoring. 1912 Daily Mirror 9 July 14/2 Vidler sat icily on the splice, playing the right game and keeping up an end while Crutchley got runs. 1926 Westm. Gaz. 29 Jan. Lord Hawke added the opinion that if there was the will to play the game and not to sit on the splice..we should see the matches brought to a conclusion. 1927 Punch 26 Jan. 108/1 ‘I don't think you're helping the score at all,’ I protested. ‘You're just sitting on your splice and leaving it all to me.’ 1928 Daily Tel. 7 Feb. 16/1 Stevens played the correct game by sitting on the splice for the first few overs. 1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 195/1 Cricketers who bought a new bat treated it almost with reverence... They oiled every part of it, except the handle and splice. 1963 A. Ross Australia 63 iii. 79 Dexter, hooking at him, nearly returned a gentle catch off the splice. 1968 L. Frewin Best of Cricket's Fiction II. 267 There was a business-like look about him, the air of one who without being the least downhearted or inclined to sit upon the splice, was yet determined to take no foolish risks. d. A joint made in editing or repairing film or magnetic or paper tape. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > [noun] > joint in editing film or tape splice1923 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > [noun] > joint in film splice1923 1923 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures (ed. 3) viii. 100 In making the splice care has to be observed to introduce the two pieces true to frame-line, gauge and marginal perforations. 1931 L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures 360 Blooping Patch, triangular or oval black section introduced over a splice in the positive sound track, to prevent the noise which the splice would otherwise cause. 1936 Words Oct. 6/1 Blooping is dying a film splice with ink sprayed from an airgun so that the splice will run through the projectors without making unnecessary noise. 1949 J. G. Frayne & H. Wolfe Elem. Sound Recording xxix. 603 A program can be edited in advance by cutting out portions or inserting other portions, since splices in the tape cannot be heard. 1973 Screen Spring 43 Montage in the narrow sense (ie as an editing splice) has a diminishing importance in certain modern films. 2. slang. Union by marriage; a marriage; a wedding. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > [noun] eeOE weddingc1000 wivingOE contractc1315 marriagec1325 matrimony1357 unionc1475 maritagec1478 briding1566 espousal1566 match1574 intermarriage1579 despousing1609 espousement1623 nuptial1630 coupling1641 splice1830 intermarrying1843 contraction1885 yokemating1891 1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii. i. 91 She ben't five-and-twenty—she'll make a heavenly splice! 1862 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 54 Till the splice is made she's a right to please herself. 1876 J. G. Holland Story of Sevenoaks (new ed.) xxi. 303 I'm a little interested in her myself and I'm going to pay for the splice. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as splice manner, splice-work, etc.; splice-bar n. = splice-piece n. splice-grafting n. a method of grafting in which the scion and stock are cut obliquely and bound firmly together; whip- or tongue-grafting; hence splice-graft vb. splice-joint n. (see quots.). splice-piece n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > whip-grafting splicing1608 whipping1629 whip-grafting1657 tongue-grafting1710 tonguing1763 splice-grafting1815 society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > track > parts and fittings of rails string-piece1789 carriage1816 chair1816 pedestal1816 surface plate1822 web1835 frog1837 switch-bar1837 snake-head1845 fish1847 fish-joint1849 plate nail1849 fishing-key1852 fish-plate1855 joint-chair1856 rail chair1864 railhead1868 lead1871 fish-bar1872 splice-piece1875 fish-plating1881 splice-jointa1884 splice-bar1894 1815 Trans. Hort. Soc. London (ed. 2) 1 239 The amputated parts [of the pear-stocks] were then accurately fitted and bound, as in splice, or whip-grafting, to scions of Pear Trees. 1830 W. Taylor Hist. Surv. German Poetry II. 397 [Dryden's style is] never approached by a German splice-work of anapaests and iambics. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 288 Splice-grafting, tongue-grafting, or whip-grafting, is the mode most commonly adopted in all gardens where the stocks are not much larger in diameter than the scion. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 289 In splice-grafting the shoots of peaches, nectarines, and apricots. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/1 Splice-piece,..a fish-plate or break-joint piece at the junction of two rails. a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 842/2 Splice joint, the connecting joints between rails on railways. 1894 Times 16 Aug. 6/4 Railway fish plates or splice bars. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). splicev. Brit. /splʌɪs/, U.S. /splaɪs/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s splise, 1600s splash. Etymology: < Middle Dutch splissen, of doubtful origin, but perhaps related to split v.; in the Continental languages now represented by Dutch dialect, Low German and German splissen, West Frisian splisse, North Frisian splesse, splasse, Swedish splissa; also German spleissen, splitsen, Dutch splitsen, Swedish splitsa, Danish splidse. The Dutch word is also the source of French épisser (†épicer), whence épissoir splicing-iron, and épissure a splice. I. To bind or join. 1. a. transitive. To join (ropes, cables, lines, etc.) by untwisting and interweaving the strands of the ends so as to form one continuous length; to unite (two parts of the same rope) by interweaving the strands of one end into those of another part so as to form an eye or loop; to repair (rigging) in this way. Chiefly Nautical.Also const. with prepositions and adverbs, as into, round, together. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > splice shoot1499 splice1524 marry1815 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > ropework operations splice1524 woold1616 stovea1625 parcel1625 serve1627 point1644 thrum1711 long-splice1863 1524–5 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 327 Paid for Splisyng of v bell Ropis, v d. a1625 H. Mainwaring Nomenclator Navalis (Harl. 2301) To splice is to make fast the ends of Roapes one into the other by joining the strands at the ends of both the Roapes. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 23 We went to worke..to splise our Cables. 1672 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 338 For splashing the bell-ropes, 4 d. 1675 E. Cocker Morals 15 All the Lines, made since Sol's Race began, Spliced into one, would prove too short to sound this bottomless..Sea. 1709 London Gaz. No. 4547/2 He spliced his Rigging, and repaired the Damages as fast as he could. 1795 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 14 Employed shifting our topsails and splicing our rigging. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 422 The two ends of these yarns he splices together. 1864 Soc. Sci. Rev. I. 266 As the sailor wants to be taught how to splice a rope or rove his tackle. 1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 213 I very soon ingratiated myself with the other men by teaching them to splice rope. absolute.1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 80 Shew me the Gentleman, crys he, that can knot or splice, or make a Pudding as it should be?1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 213 I was rather surprised to find that they could not splice. b. To form (an eye or knot) in a rope by splicing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > splice > form knot by splicing splice1773 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > ropework operations > form by splicing splice1773 1773 Life N. Frowde 24 I could not only go to any Part of the Vessel that I was bid, but splice a Knot and go aloft. 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 72 One end [of the line] is bent on to the harpoon; the other (with an eye spliced in it) is left hanging out of the sternpost tub. c. to splice the main-brace: see mainbrace n.¹ 2. 2. a. To join (two pieces of timber, etc.) by overlapping or scarfing the two ends together in such a way as to form one continuous length; to fasten together in this way; to graft by a similar process. Also, to fasten together (metal girders and rails, concrete beams, etc.) similarly. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > join > in specific manner or with specific joint cocket1565 rabbet1565 splice1626 rebate1770 joggle1820 jump1885 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 3 The Carpenter..is to..[be] euer ready for calking, breaming..fishing or spliceing the Masts or Yards. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 13 A Iury-mast, which is made with yards, rouftrees, or what they can, splised or fished together. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) To Splice among Gardeners, is to graft the Top of one Tree into the Stock of another, by cutting them sloping, and fastening them together. 1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 408 The branches of the old tree thus spliced in the rind yield an uncommon quantity of fruit. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 128 A very noble fir.., which was not spliced in the common mode, but was converted in it's full dimensions, into the bowsprit of the Britannia. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. ix. 209 East and Tom were..splicing a favourite old fives' bat. 1860 M. Reid Hunters' Feast (new ed.) xvii The breaking of our waggon-tongue..delayed our journey. There was plenty of good hickory-wood,..and Jake..soon spliced it again. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/2 Splint, a wooden strip for splicing and stiffening a fractured bar or beam. 1892 L. de C. Berg Safe Building II. x. 113 If any part of a girder..is spliced, made of two parts, the number of rivets each side of splice..should be made sufficient to transfer the full strength of original plate across the joint. 1913 W. H. Sellew Steel Rails iv. 263 The stiffness of the rail that is to be spliced. 1951 R. D. Chellis Pile Foundations ix. 201 (caption) Exposing reinforcing preparatory to splicing a large precast concrete pile. 1976 R. Chudley Construction Technol. III. vii. 75 Where members of the frame are joined or spliced together the connections are generally mechanical (nut and bolt). b. transferred. To unite in this manner by means of surgery or natural healing. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > treatments uniting or replacing parts > unite or replace parts [verb (transitive)] > unite fractures, wounds, etc. consoudec1400 consolid1483 solder1495 conglutine?1541 reconsolidate?1541 consolidate1563 agglutinate1589 solidate1657 splice1755 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) I. 178 Surgeon Macpherson..having thus spliced the fox's tail to the little skill he had in surgery. 1867 H. Latham Black & White 87 The glass cases of broken bones,..as poor mother nature had tried to glue them together and splice them again, gave some idea of the horrors of war. c. In various transferred and figurative uses: To unite, combine, join, mend. Also spec. in Biology, to join or insert (a gene or gene fragment). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > put right [verb (transitive)] helpc950 amendc1230 bootc1330 correctc1374 menda1375 recovera1398 dighta1400 restorea1400 redressa1402 recurec1425 remedyc1425 remeidc1480 emendc1485 richa1500 rightena1500 chastisea1513 rectifya1529 redeem1575 salve1575 remed1590 reclaim1593 renew1608 retrieve1625 recruit1673 raccommode1754 splice1803 doctor1829 remediate1837 right-side1847 sort1948 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] gatherc725 fayOE samc1000 join1297 conjoinc1374 enjoinc1384 assemble1393 compound1393 sociea1398 annex?c1400 ferec1400 marrowc1400 combinec1440 annectc1450 piece?c1475 combind1477 conjunge1547 associate1578 knit1578 sinew1592 splinter1597 patch1604 accouple1605 interjoina1616 withjoina1627 league1645 contignate1651 to bring on1691 splice1803 pan1884 suture1886 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [verb (intransitive)] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes restitute1945 replicate1952 splice1975 1803 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1804) 7 68 And when they would buy, a whole company splice Their pence.., to make up the price. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. v. i. 339 My legacy consisted of a broken fortune to splice. 1810 G. Crabbe Borough x. 141 The long Tale, renew'd when last they met, Is splic'd anew, and is unfinish'd yet. 1828 Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) II. 154 He splices so many subjects upon one another, it is difficult to make a selection. 1890 D. G. Mitchell Eng. Lands ii. 74 We know..that he takes to the work of mending plays, and splicing good parts together. 1975 Nature 18 Dec. 563/1 The genes to be cloned would first be spliced on to either a bacterial plasmid..or on to the DNA of bacteriophage lambda which would then infect the bacterium. 1977 Sci. News 29 Jan. 70 The controversial research in question is a class of experiments that..include splicing the genes of a virus or bacteria to partially purified DNA from mammals or birds..known to produce potent toxins or pathogens. 1979 Newsweek 4 June 64 One valuable product has already resulted from the work: human insulin, manufactured by splicing fragments of DNA that manufacture the hormone in humans into an intestinal bacterium. d. To bind, fasten, fix firmly or securely. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > make fast [verb (transitive)] > fasten or fix steek?c1335 stick1372 ficchec1374 plant1381 inficche1382 fix14.. graft1531 graff1536 stick1586 rivet1600 stay1627 rig1835 splice1847 fixate1885 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iii. iii. 30 If you were in the middle of the desert and the least grumbling, you would be spliced on a camel. e. To make a splice or joint in (a length of film or magnetic or paper tape); to join (film or tape) in, on or up. Occasionally intransitive (or absol.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > record [verb (transitive)] > make splice or joint in length of film or tape splice1912 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > edit [verb (transitive)] > make joint in film splice1912 1912 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures xii. 137 Occasionally when a film is being run through the projector it becomes severed by some means or other. Before it can be used again the break must be repaired by splicing the two parts together. 1931 Wilkinson & Reis in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures xiv. 200 When film is spliced on a standard splicing machine, the splice crosses the sound track at right angles to its length. 1958 W. E. Stewart Magn. Recording Techn. ii. 42 The wire, still useful in some applications, cannot be spliced so easily as tape. 1962 L. Deighton Ipcress File xxiv. 156 The film lab had been very thorough, they had spliced on to the end of the film the incident of my arrest. 1973 A. Broinowski Take One Ambassador x. 140 The odd faux pas..would have to be cut; splice in a bedroom scene there. 1974 N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 174 Snip a bit off this [tape] and splice it up. 1978 L. Davidson Chelsea Murders xxiii. 141 He put in six solid hours at the editing... He compared and cut and spliced till two in the morning. 1978 G. McDonald Fletch's Fortune xxx. 201 ‘I need one of those cassette tape recorders. You know, with a tape splicer. I need to splice some tape.’ ‘Mine doesn't have a splicer.’ 1980 S. Hockey Guide Computer Applic. Humanities ii. 25 Sections of corrected [paper] tape can be spliced or glued into the original. f. Cricket. To strike (the ball) with the splice of the bat, as a mishit. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > batting > bat [verb (transitive)] > hit > hit with specific stroke take1578 stop1744 nip1752 block1772 drive1773 cut1816 draw1816 tip1816 poke1836 spoon1836 mow1844 to put up1845 smother1845 sky1849 crump1850 to pick up1851 pull1851 skyrocket1851 swipe1851 to put down1860 to get away1868 smite1868 snick1871 lift1874 crack1882 smack1882 off-drive1888 snip1890 leg1892 push1893 hook1896 flick1897 on-drive1897 chop1898 glance1898 straight drive1898 cart1903 edge1904 tonk1910 sweep1920 mishook1934 middle1954 square-drive1954 tickle1963 square-cut1976 slash1977 splice1982 paddle1986 1982 Guardian 19 Feb. 22/2 Botham went for a swinging pull shot, and spliced it tamely but safely to mid~wicket. 3. slang. a. To join in matrimony; to marry. Chiefly in passive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage wedOE join1297 spousec1325 bind1330 couplea1340 to put togethera1387 conjoin1447 accouple1548 matea1593 solemnize1592 espouse1599 faggot1607 noose1664 to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700 rivet1700 to tie the knot1718 buckle1724 unite1728 tack1732 wedlock1737 marry1749 splice1751 to turn off1759 to tie up1894 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. vii. 52 Trunnion! Trunnion! turn out and be spliced, or lie still and be damned. 1788 in F. Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. i. 2 My two sisters are both to be spliced to young squireens in the neighbourhood. 1853 C. Brontë Villette III. xlii. 307 Alfred and I intended to be married in this way almost from the first; we never meant to be spliced in the humdrum way of other people. 1873 A. I. Ritchie Wks. (1891) I. 148 There goes a parson... Shall I run after him and get him to splice us off-hand? b. intransitive. To get married. Also const. with. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (intransitive)] weda1225 marrya1325 spousec1390 to make matrimonyc1400 intermarry1528 contract1530 to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1535 to make a match1547 yoke1567 match1569 mate1589 to go to church (with a person)1600 to put one's neck in a noosec1600 paira1616 to join giblets1647 buckle1693 espouse1693 to change (alter) one's condition1712 to tie the knot1718 to marry out1727 to wedlock it1737 solemnize1748 forgather1768 unite1769 connubiate1814 conjugalize1823 connubialize1870 splice1874 to get hitched up1890 to hook up1903 1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xxiii. 216 I heerd say as he was a goin' to splice with a gal that could pray like a angel afire. 1875 J. G. Holland Sevenoaks xii. 155 Jim, be ye goin' to splice? 1981 T. Heald Murder at Moose Jaw xii. 144 If the old flapper spliced with the colonel she stood to lose a million dollars. 4. intransitive. To fit into something with a splice. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > be made fast or fixed [verb (intransitive)] > be fastened or fixed > be fixed in with a splice splice1882 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 125 The end [of the spilling line] splicing into the head of the sail. II. To split. †5. transitive and intransitive. To split. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > crack, split, or fissure to-slita1250 rivea1400 slatterc1400 chapc1460 chip1508 gaig1584 spleet1585 split1595 chink1599 chawn1602 slent1605 slat1607 sliver1608 speld1616 crevice1624 checka1642 chicka1642 crack1664 splice1664 sleave- 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 74 Making the stroke upward, and with a sharp Bill, so as the weight of an untractable bough do not splice and carry the bark with it. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 92 In arms of Timber which are very great, chop a nick under it close to the Boal, so meeting it with the down-right strokes, it will be cut without splicing. Derivatives spliced adj. /splaɪst/ formed, joined, repaired, or reinforced by splicing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > materials having undergone process > [adjective] > having undergone other processes alumed1574 splinted1616 scribed1678 cold-drawn1716 droved1754 cool-drawn1774 swaged1842 spliced1859 chiselled1873 steam-cured1909 refinished1910 precast1914 fibrillated1929 plasticized1937 foamed1943 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [adjective] > type of joint > joined by joggled1823 spliced1859 pin-jointed1872 1859 T. P. Shaffner Telegr. Man. xli. 597 Fig. 13 is the two ends spliced, having first been cleaned. 1867 G. H. Selkirk Guide to Cricket Ground iii. 44 A new handle can be inserted..and the ‘spliced bat’ will be quite as good as before—indeed, many players have their bats spliced at first, thinking it a great improvement. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 250 Though a spliced staff e'en as strong may be As one ne'er broken. 1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. Suppl. 7/2 A spliced Cricket Bat. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2280/1 Spliced Eye, the rope is bent around a thimble, and the end spliced into the standing part. 1891 W. G. Grace Cricket ii. 42 This one [sc. a bat] had a spliced handle with a strip of whalebone down the centre of it, and was very much prized. 1897 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 104. 243/3 Men's Seamless Cotton Half Hose... Spliced heels and toes. 1931 Wilkinson & Reis in L. Cowan Recording Sound for Motion Pictures xiv. 201 A similar section of silent track, matching the average density of the spliced tracks, is..cemented into the hole. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 69 Spliced heel, heel reinforced with the same fabric as the stocking. 1970 E.-O. Libuda tr. Heinhold Power Cables & Applic. xlvi. 457 Brazing is necessary for spliced connections [in copper conductors]. 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