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graft

noun
/ɡɹɑːft/UK/ɡɹæft/US

Etymology

From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.

  1. derived from γραφείον
  2. derived from graphium
  3. derived from greffe
  4. inherited from graffe

Definitions

  1. A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to…

    A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

  2. A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

  3. A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

  4. ›+ 20 more definitions

    1. To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree

      To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.

    2. To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another

      To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

    3. To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

    4. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

      • And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
      • Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.

    5. To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or…

      To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.

    6. To form a graft polymer

    7. A ditch, a canal.

    8. The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.

      • […] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…]

    9. A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.

    10. Corruption in official life.

    11. Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.

    12. A criminal’s special branch of practice.

    13. A con job.

    14. A cut of the take (money).

    15. A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.

    16. Work

      Work; labor requiring effort.

      • We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done.
      • Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal.

    17. A job or trade.

    18. To work hard.

    19. To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.

    20. A surname.

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Derived

allograft, antigraft, anti-graft, autograft, bone graft, cleftgraft, dendrigraft, downgraft, endograft, engraft, graftage, graftectomy, graftless, graftling, graft polymer, graft-versus-host, graft-versus-host disease, heterograft, homograft, hypergraft, intergraft, intragraft, isograft, lipograft, micrograft, orthograft, perigraft, postgraft, regraft, skin graft, syngraft, transgraft, whip graft, white graft, xenograft, zoograft, graftable, graft the forked tree, misgraft, grafting tool · +3 more

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA