實際把兩端接成一條
這一族就是核心畫面本身，只是分成動詞和名詞兩個角度看同一件事。
verb · C1
To join the ends of two pieces of rope, film, tape, wire or similar material so that they make one continuous piece.
接合／拼接
核心畫面
Picture two rope ends. You do not tie them. You open each end into its separate strands, lay the two frayed ends into each other, and work the strands over and under until you cannot say where one rope stops and the other starts. Cut first, then join, and the join carries the same load as the rest. That single picture, an invisible join between two ends, runs under everything this word does.
splice 可以想成兩條繩子的端點。你不打結。你把每一端拆散成一股一股，再讓兩個散開的端互相疊進去，一股壓一股地編…更多收起
splice 可以想成兩條繩子的端點。你不打結。你把每一端拆散成一股一股，再讓兩個散開的端互相疊進去，一股壓一股地編回去，編到分不出哪裡是這條、哪裡是那條。先拆開，再接起來，接完的那一段還撐得住原來的力氣。這個「看不出來的接口」的畫面，幾乎撐得起這個字的每一種用法。From the word’s history
Wiktionary traces splice to Middle Dutch splissen, a relative of splitten, to split. The Dutch word first named only the fraying of a rope's ends, then came to cover the whole job of fraying and retying. That is how a word from the split family ended up meaning join, and it is why the core picture still starts with cutting.
Wiktionary 說 splice 大約一五二五年從中古荷蘭語 splissen 借來，和 splitten（劈開）同源。荷蘭語原本只指把繩頭拆散，後來把「拆散再編回去」整件事都包進去。所以一個從「劈開」那一家出來的字，最後變成「接起來」；也因此這個核心畫面永遠是先剪、再接。
Wiktionary entry for splice, packet evidence source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:666443113 — etymology_text describing Middle Dutch splissen, akin to splitten, and the development from split to join.
Three branches
把不同的東西接成一個
繩子的接法被借去講抽象的東西：兩樣原本各自獨立的事物被編進彼此，最後要讀起來像一個整體。
verb · C2
To join two different things that are not physical, such as ideas, stories or styles, so that they work as one whole.
揉合／拼接
細胞裡的剪接
科學把同一套動作搬進細胞：先剪掉不要的一段，再把剩下的接成一條完整的鏈。
verb · C2
In biology, to cut the unneeded sections out of a strand of RNA and join the remaining sections together into one working strand.
剪接（RNA）