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Splicing

noun

A junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together. Synonym: splice.

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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"Splicing" Quotes from Famous Books

... the whole wall on every side with turrets, and had covered them with skins. Besides, in their frequent sallies by day and night, they attempted either to set fire to the mound, or attack our soldiers when engaged in the works; and, moreover, by splicing the upright timbers of their own towers, they equalled the height of ours, as fast as the mound had daily raised them, and countermined our mines, and impeded the working of them by stakes bent and sharpened at the ends, and ...

— "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries • Caius Julius Caesar

... knitting machines in modern use are the drawers machine; machines for hose and half-hose with apparatus for making the instep, finishing off the toe, splicing or thickening the heels, etc.; machines for producing the bottoms or soles of hose separately, and also the instep separately; circular stocking machines for producing a tubular web afterwards cut into suitable lengths for ...

— Textiles • William H. Dooley

... language, as in the case of "belay," and it has happened that the sailor alone has been left to keep them alive. Dr. Johnson seems not to have known the meaning of the verb "to belay" among the other things he did not know but was very violent about. He thought it was a sea-phrase for splicing a rope, just as he supposed "main-sheet" was the largest sail of ...

— Waiting for Daylight • Henry Major Tomlinson

... the note of dismay in her tone. He had shipped his oars. They were the only ones that had been provided. He glanced hastily at the oar Mab indicated. It had been broken and roughly spliced together. The wood that had been used for the splicing was rotten, and the friction in the rowlocks had almost worn it through. Merefleet examined it ...

— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... assumes, it might be inferred that your correspondent is in the habit of 'sailing close to the wind.'" He asks permission to suggest an explanation of his own. It is that before 11:30 P.M. there had been numerous accidents to the "main brace," and that it had required splicing so often that almost any ray of light would have ...

— The Book of the Damned • Charles Fort