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Splice

verb

(past & past part. spliced; pres. part. splicing)

Join the ends of.

Perform a marriage ceremony. Synonyms: marry, tie, wed. "We were wed the following week" , "The couple got spliced on Hawaii"

Join together so as to form new genetic combinations.

Join by interweaving strands.

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"Splice" Quotes from Famous Books

... creel, and a creel is, to me, a superfluity. There is never anything to put in it. If I do catch a trout, I lay him under a big stone, cover him with leaves, and never find him again. I often break my top joint; so, as I never carry string, I splice it with a bit of the line, which I bite off, for I really cannot be troubled with scissors and I always lose my knife. When a phantom minnow sticks in my clothes, I snap the gut off, and put on another, so that when I reach home I look as if a shoal of fierce minnows had attacked me and hung ...

— Angling Sketches • Andrew Lang

... "Ho! splice the anchor under-weigh!" The captain loudly cried; "Ho! lubbers brave, belay! belay! For we must luff for Falmouth Bay Before ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... the 26th, the middle splice was effected and the bight dropped into the deep. The two ships got under weigh, but had not proceeded three miles when the cable broke in the paying-out machinery of the Niagara. Another splice, followed by a fresh start, was made during the same ...

— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... maintenance work, compact and complete with extension handles for the cutters and wrenches. Everything was there, but practically impossible to use. His fingers finally closed over the wire; he jerked it out and with it the splice tool. The little pliers caromed from the brace above him and sailed out toward the motor, beyond the ship. He watched, horrified, as the tool ...

— Tight Squeeze • Dean Charles Ing

Words linked to "Splice" : solemnise, enlace, entwine, conjoin, intertwine, joint, hook up with, splicing, officiate, espouse, splicer, solemnize, twine, get married, junction, lace, piece, join, interlace, get hitched with, marry, conjunction