spliceとは

語源

Borrowing from Dutch splissen (廃れた用法); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”). First known use: circa 1525

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /splaɪs/
• 韻: -aɪs

名詞

splice (複数形 splices)

1. (nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
2. (electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
3. (cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
4. Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
5. (genetics) The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

下位語

• comma splice
• cut splice
• cunt splice
• eye splice

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動詞

splice (三人称単数 現在形 splices, 現在分詞 splicing, 過去形および過去分詞形 spliced)

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. (slang) To unite in marriage.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3

     But come, it's getting dreadful late, you had better be turning flukes--it's a nice bed; Sal and me slept in that ere bed the night we were spliced.

4. (figuratively) To unite as if splicing.

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

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

関連する語

• splice the mainbrace