Spliced vs Sliced - What's the difference?
spliced | sliced |
(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.
That has been cut into slices.
(slice)
As verbs the difference between spliced and sliced
is that spliced is past tense of splice while sliced is past tense of slice.As an adjective sliced is
that has been cut into slices.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 mainbracesliced
English
Adjective
(-)- sliced bread