different between spun vs splice

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?sp?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

spun

1. simple past tense and past participle of spin

Anagrams

• Puns, puns

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• aspun, spunu, aspunu

Etymology

From Latin exp?n?. Compare Romanian spune, spun.

Verb

spun (third-person singular present spuni/spune, past participle spusã)

1. I say.

Synonyms

• dzãc

Related terms

• spuniri/spunire, spuneari/spuneare
• spuneri
• spunere
• spus
• pun
• apun
• dipun

See also

• grescu

Atong (India)

Etymology

From English spoon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?pun/

Noun

spun (Bengali script ?????)

1. spoon

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Middle English

Noun

spun

1. Alternative form of spone

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [spun]

Verb

spun

1. first-person singular present indicative of spune
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of spune

   vrei s?-?i spun cum m? simt?

   do you want me to tell you how I feel?

3. third-person plural present indicative of spune

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English spoon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spun/

Noun

spun

1. spoon

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English spoon.

Noun

spun

1. spoon

Volapük

Noun

spun (nominative plural spuns)

1. spoon

Declension

Derived terms

• supaspun

English

Etymology

Circa 1525, borrowed from Middle Dutch splissen (Modern Dutch splitsen); akin to Middle Dutch splitten (“to split”), German spleißen (“to split, splice”), Spliss (“split ends, hair breakage”), French épisser (also from Dutch). The Dutch word originally referred only to the fraying of the ropes' ends, but was then also used for the entire process of fraying and retying; hence the peculiar semantic development from “split” to “join”.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /spla?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

splice (plural 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.

Hyponyms

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

Related terms

Translations

Verb

splice (third-person singular simple present splices, present participle splicing, simple past and past participle 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.

Related terms

• splice the mainbrace

Translations