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spliced Meaning & Definition

What Does Spliced Mean?

Spliced is an adjective that means This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}. As a verb, it means simple past and past participle of splice. As a verb, it means To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.

Spliced Definition (Adjective)

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Spliced as a Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of splice

Verb

  1. To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
  2. To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
  3. To unite in marriage.
  4. To unite as if splicing.

    He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.

  5. To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.

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Spliced in a Sentence

He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.

Word Forms & Grammar

spliced (comparative more spliced, superlative most spliced)

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