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Splice (Verb)

Join by interweaving strands; "Splice the wires".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The electrician carefully learned to splice the various wires together to form a single circuit.
She could splice the broken thread so expertly that no one would ever notice the repair.
It was a delicate process to splice the fragile DNA samples into a cohesive whole.
In the high seas, sailors know how to splice ropes to create a stronger, more reliable line.
The editor had to carefully splice the different film scenes to create a coherent narrative.

Perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii".

Verbs of political and social activities and events.

The couple got spliced in a beautiful outdoor ceremony on a warm summer evening.
We were spliced on a sunny beach surrounded by our closest friends and family.
After years of being together, they finally decided to get spliced in a small town hall.
The groom's parents were overjoyed when they heard their son got spliced to his long-time partner last weekend.
The romantic getaway ended with the couple getting spliced in an intimate ceremony at the resort.

Join the ends of; "splice film".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

The filmmaker worked late into the night to splice the scenes together seamlessly.
She had to splice some wire together to get her car started again.
The editor spent hours deciding exactly where to splice the two storylines.
In video editing, you need to splice clips carefully to avoid any jumps.
To fix her favorite sweater, she carefully spliced the yarn to repair a tear.

Join together so as to form new genetic combinations; "splice genes".

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Scientists spliced the human gene into the bacterial genome to create a new organism capable of producing insulin.
The genetic material was carefully spliced together in the laboratory to create a hybrid species.
To create the new species, researchers spliced the genes of two different plants together using advanced biotechnology techniques.
Using the gene-splicing technique, they managed to combine the desirable traits of both organisms into a single species.
Biotechnologists are learning to splice the genes of beneficial microorganisms into the DNA of crop plants, making them more resistant to disease.