Graft (1915 serial)
WordNet
noun
(1) The act of grafting something onto something else
(2) The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
(3) (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
verb
(4) Place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
(5) Cause to grow together parts from different plants
"Graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"
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Etymology
From < < < < ; probably akin to English . So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Compare graphic, grammar.
Noun
- 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.
- A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
- A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
- Hard work.
- A criminal’s special branch of practice
- Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
- Corruption in official life.
- A con job.
- A cut of the take (money).
- A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
Verb
- 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 implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
- To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
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- 1717 Eloisa to Abelard. And graft my love immortal on thy fame! — Alexander Pope
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- To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
- To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.