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Word: splice (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
  • electrical The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
  • cricket That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
  • nautical A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.

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Verb:

  • figuratively To unite as if splicing.
  • To unite, as 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 interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
  • To unite in marriage.

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