English Explanatory Dictionary

graft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
verb
  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.
  2. 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.
  5. 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
noun
  1. A ditch, a canal.
  2. The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
  3. A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
noun
  1. Corruption in official life.
  2. Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
  3. A criminal’s special branch of practice.
  4. A con job.
  5. A cut of the take (money).
  6. A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
  7. Work; labor requiring effort.
  8. A job or trade.
verb
  1. To work hard.
  2. To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ɡɹɑːft/ /ɡɹæft/ En-au-graft.ogg

Word forms

graft grafts graff grafting grafted

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.

Synonyms

attach put together unite imp affix

Derived words

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 graftproof grafter grift
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