Welded vs Splice - What's the difference?
welded | splice |
(weld)
possibly deriving from the (etyl) word for woodland. The family is mainly located in the Southern regions of England.
(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.
As verbs the difference between welded and splice
is that welded is (weld) while splice is 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.As a noun splice is
(nautical) a junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.welded
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(head)Weld
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(en proper noun)Anagrams
*splice
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(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.