graft

[Graft]

Graft can mean bribery or corruption. It's also a way of transplanting skin or bones in medicine, as in a skin graft.

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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.

Noun
the act of grafting something onto something else

Noun
the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

Noun
(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

Verb
place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

Verb
cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

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n.
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.

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

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

n.
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.

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

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

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

v. i.
To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.


Graft

Graft , n. [OE. graff, F. greffe, originally the same word as OF. grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. , , fr. to write; prob. akin to E. carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic, Grammar.] (a) 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. (b) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. (c) (Surg.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

Graft

Graft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grafting.] [F. greffer. See Graft, n.] 1. 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. [Formerly written graff.] 2. (Surg.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. 3. 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 !
4. (Naut.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.

Graft

Graft, v. i. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

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.

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.

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

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