to splice
- verb
- /splaɪs/
- I got to get this stuff spliced together.
- splice together
I mean, it might be the ends get spliced in later, so who knows.
- I mean, it might be the ends get spliced in later, so who knows.
- And they would just like, make repeat pieces of tape and splice them together.
- So they took a audience that was laughing at another comedian and spliced it up laughing.
- So it doesn't just try to take pieces of other people's images and splice them together and smooth the edges.
- You know, going into the photography shop and taking reels of film and splicing them up and selling them in school.
- A chat bot takes existing phrases and essays written by a human, splices them together, and passes it off as your your article.
- And after I would splice in the footage that Mel would send and Brianna would send, they would obviously post their own videos.
- But he the point was to the players is it gets going to get spliced up and it's going to get cut and edited by these these guys and you know, who knows what's going to come out?
Examples
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And splice them together for effect.
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He learned how to splice two pieces of rope together securely for the sailing trip.
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Nobody will notice once I splice it back together.
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We'll splice it all together later.
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The ability to splice cable was fundamental to the overall operation.
Academic text (2011) -
Splice it to the end so that we may continue our descent.
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LightWorks comes with the basic editing tools needed to splice footage, images, and music to create a professional video.
Blog text (22) -
I then spliced the footage together and projected my masterpiece on a sheet in the basement.
Academic text (1995) -
And all I've done basically is spliced both the radio control signals from the receiver into the two ESC's.
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To repair the damaged film, the technician needed to splice the ends carefully.
Synonyms
To make cloth by crossing threads or to join things into a single piece
Twist things together so they become joined or tangled
To twist threads together or wind them around something
To join threads, strands and layers into stronger material
Antonyms
To separate something so it is no longer joined, for example remove a cable or turn off power
Idioms
How Secure
Surface Forms
Etymology
To splice originally meant a sailor's skill of splitting and weaving rope ends so they hold under pressure. That's why to splice film or wire is to weave their ends into a secure 'join'.