Spliced vs Mended - What's the difference?
spliced | mended |
(splice)
(nautical) A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.
(electrical) The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.
(cricket) That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.
Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.
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.
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.
(slang) To unite in marriage.
* 1851 ,
(figuratively) To unite as if splicing.
(mend)
A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
The act of repairing.
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
* Sir W. Temple
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
* Mortimer
* Shakespeare
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
As verbs the difference between spliced and mended
is that spliced is (splice) while mended is (mend).spliced
English
Verb
(head)splice
English
(wikipedia splice)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bent on a splice * comma splice * cut splice * cunt splice * eye splice * splice tapeVerb
(splic)- 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 .
- He argues against attempts to splice different genres or species of literature into a single composition.
Derived terms
* splice the mainbracemended
English
Verb
(head)mend
English
Noun
(en noun)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend .
Derived terms
* on the mendVerb
(en verb)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending .
- When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended .
- Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
- My broken heart was mended .
- The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
- Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
- You mend the jewel by wearing it.