The difference between Edit and Splice

Edit as a noun:

A change to the text of a document.

Edit as a noun (computing):

A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.

Edit as a noun (comedy):

An interruption or change to an improvised scene.

Edit as a verb:

To change a text, or a document.

Edit as a verb (transitive):

To be the editor of a publication.

Edit as a verb (computing):

To change the contents of a file, website, programme etc.

Edit as a verb (biology):

To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.

Edit as a verb:

To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.

Edit as a verb (comedy):

To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.

Splice as a noun (nautical):

A junction or joining of ropes made by splicing them together.

Splice as a noun (electrical):

The electrical and mechanical connection between two pieces of wire or cable.

Splice as a noun (cricket):

That part of a bat where the handle joins the blade.

Splice as a noun:

Bonding or joining of overlapping materials.

Splice as a noun (genetics):

The process of removing intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then joining together exons.

Splice as a verb:

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.

Splice as a verb:

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.

Splice as a verb (slang):

To unite in marriage.

Splice as a verb (figuratively):

To unite as if splicing.

Splice as a verb (genetics):

To remove intron sequences from the pre-messenger RNA, and then join together exons.