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splice
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, originally a sailors' word, from Middle Dutch splissen "to splice" (Dutch splitsen ), from Proto-Germanic *spli- , from PIE root *(s)plei- "to split, splice" (see flint ). The Dutch word was borrowed in French as épisser . Used of motion picture ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together; "the break was due to an imperfect splice" [syn: splicing ] joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together [syn: lap joint ]
Usage examples of splice.
I need to know about any more anonymous letters about any scientific research connected with microbiology, recombinant DNA, or gene splicing.
Men in the bowels of the Kennedy Space Center were currently working to create those alien signals by splicing and overdubbing old 8-tracks.
DNA, built from scratch from the appropriate amino acids, then multiplied by polymerase chain reactions, were spliced into bacterial plasmids, which acted as vectors to transmit the recombinant genes to the nucleus of the egg itself.
Some plasmids are capable of splicing themselves seamlessly into a chromosome.
Soviet scientists even attempted to splice the botulinum toxin gene into other bacteria to create a so-called superbug.
He spliced in the extra Amps and laid back and was at once in a gossamer finespun holotime of delight and transfigured brassy radiance.
This runs from the barrel at the stern, down the centre of the boat, to the crutch on the starboard bow where it is spliced to the two harpoons in front of where Hammerhead Jack is seated.
Tyndall was splicing rope again and the Koepangers were repairing holes in hessian bags.
While Catalino spliced the noseband to the headstall, Efrain explained what he believed had occurred at the monkey-ladder vine.
Psycho Night Nurses was painless as those things go, ten minutes of plot stretched over an hour and a half of orgasms spliced together from the outtakes of a dozen other films shot at the same time.
In fact his voice has been spliced in 24 times per second with the sound of my breathing and the beating of my heart so that my body is convinced that my breathing and heart will stop if his voice stops.
They both recorded a short text then then the two tapes were cut into short sections and spliced in together.
The word is spliced in with the sound of your intestines and breathing with the beating of your heart.
In order to obtain any degree of precision the tapes must be cut with a scissors and spliced together with tape.
S is spliced into the total record o f W and W is not spliced into the total record of S this unilateral splicing may result in W contracting an S virus to his considerable disadvantage.