different between ties vs splice

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?z

Noun

ties

1. plural of tie
2. (dated) Low shoes fastened with lacings.

Verb

ties

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tie

Anagrams

• EITs, ETSI, Esti, ITEs, SETI, TISE, site

Catalan

Noun

ties

1. plural of tia

Esperanto

Etymology

Esperanto ti- (demonstrative correlative prefix) + -es (correlative suffix of possession)

Pronunciation

Determiner

ties (plural ties, accusative singular ties, accusative plural ties)

1. Belonging to that [one/person] (demonstrative correlative of possession), its

   La sunsistemo estas la aro de planedoj, lunoj, asteroidoj, kaj kometoj, kiu ?irka?as la Sunon pro ties gravita kampo.

   The solar system is the system of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets, which surround the Sun due to its gravitational field.

Usage notes

When combined with ?i, the adverbial particle of proximity, ties ?i means belonging to this [person].

Finnish

Etymology

From tietää (“to know”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tie?s/, [?t?ie??s?]
• Rhymes: -ies
• Syllabification: ties

Adverb

ties

1. God knows, who knows

   Ties mitä otsikot sanovat presidentin tuoreiden kommenttien jälkeen.

   God knows (or Who knows) what the headlines will say after the president's recent comments.

Synonyms

• Luoja tietää

Anagrams

• -itse, esti, etsi, itse, itse-, seit

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

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