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# splice

«splice» in Mova's school dictionary: **to join their ends together firmly, often by weaving the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (splice, splices, spliced, splicing); noun (a splice, splices)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To splice two ropes or wires means to join their ends together firmly, often by weaving the strands into each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#m1)

2) To splice film, tape or video means to join two pieces so they play one after the other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#m2)

3) In science, to splice genes means to cut and join pieces of DNA. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#m3)

4) (noun) A splice is the place where two things have been joined. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#m4)

5) (UK, informal) «Get spliced» means to get married. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, «gene splicing» is part of how scientists change living things. In sailing and scouting, splicing rope is a useful skill. In film-making lessons, clips are spliced together to make a story. Phrases: «splice together», «splice in», «gene splicing», «get spliced» (old slang for marry).

### examples

- The sailor spliced the two ropes so they would not slip apart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#x1)
- We spliced our video clips together to make the class film. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#x2)
- The electrician spliced the broken wires. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#x3)
- Scientists can splice a gene from one plant into another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#x4)
- You can hardly see the splice in the rope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#x5)
- Grandad joked that he and Gran got spliced fifty years ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#x6)
- The editor spliced in a funny clip at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: spliced, splicing (drop the «e» before «-ing»). «Splice» joins things; do not confuse it with «slice», which cuts them apart. «Get spliced» is jokey, old-fashioned talk.

### In the corpora

- [Joining two sentences with only a comma is a comma splice; use a full stop or a joining word instead.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/26-sentences-capital-letters-full-stops-and-the-four-types/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «splice» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/splice/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.