splice

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splice1 /splaɪs/ verb [transitiveT]

1. TTWTIEto join the ends of two pieces of rope, film etc so that they form one continuous piece 连接，捻接，接合〔两条绳子、胶片等的两端〕

2. get spliced British EnglishBrE informalMARRY to get married 结婚

Examples from the Corpus

get spliced• New Woman magazine found that most girls still want to get spliced.

Examples from the Corpus

splice• For the benefit of the conductor, a short length of cord was spliced on and hung down over each doorway.• We saved the broken pieces and spliced them together.• The line itself must be securely tied or spliced to the swivel.• I assumed it would splice together further ahead.• He spliced up the tape afterwards and things like that.• Rex had established himself as the rope and rigging man, knotting, splicing, whipping ends, replacing worn sections.• Either exon 1 or coding segment 2 can splice with exon 3 to encode an alanine across the splice junction.

splice2 noun [countableC]

TIEthe act of joining the ends of two things together, or the place where this join has been made 连接，接合；连接处，接合点

Examples from the Corpus

splice• Every length of rope had mends and splices.• The AD1 domain appears to be spliced as part of a pattern of multiple alternative splices.• Then we might get together for a mini-lesson on, say, comma splices.• In each case the splices result in appropriate splice junctions and a single open reading frame.

Origin splice1

(1500-1600) Middle Dutch splissen

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Corpus

BNC: 22354 COCA: 19204

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