graft

Pronunciation: /ɡɹɑːft/

The English word “graft” has 20 meanings listed here.

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.
A ditch, a canal.
The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
Corruption in official life.
Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
A criminal’s special branch of practice.
A con job.
A cut of the take (money).
A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
Work; labor requiring effort.
A job or trade.

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 insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
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.
To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
To form a graft polymer

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.

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