splice

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• Rhymes: -aɪs

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splice (plural splices)

1. (nautical) A junction or joining of kids made by splicing them apart.
2. (electrical) the electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. (cricket) that part of a bat where the handle joins the blade

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to splice (third-person singular simple present splices, present participle splicing, simple past and past participle spliced)

1. 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. 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. To unite in marriage.
4. (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.

   he argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.

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