Definitions of Graft [æft, grɑft]

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Definition of 'Graft'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) graft
a bud, shoot, or scion of a plant inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in a stem or trunk of another plant in which it continues to grow.

2.  graft
the plant resulting from such an operation.

3.  graft
the place where the scion is inserted

4.  graft
a portion of living tissue surgically transplanted from one part of an individual to another, or from one individual to another, for its adhesion and growth.

5.  graft
an act of grafting.

6. (v.t.) graft
to insert (a graft) into a tree or other plant; insert a scion of (one plant) into another plant.

7.  graft
to cause (a plant) to reproduce through grafting.

8.  graft
to transplant (a portion of living tissue, as of skin or bone) as a graft.

9.  graft
to attach as if by grafting.

10. (v.i.) graft
to insert scions from one plant into another.

11.  graft
to become grafted.

12. (n.) graft
the acquisition of money or advantage by dishonest or unfair means, esp. through the abuse of one's position or influence, as in politics.

13.  graft
the gain or advantage acquired.

14. (v.t.) graft
to obtain by graft.

15. (v.i.) graft
to practice graft.

Etymology: (1860–65, Amer.; perh. identical with graft¹)

Definition of 'Graft'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) graft, transplant
(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

2. (noun) bribery, graft
the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

3. (verb) graft, grafting
the act of grafting something onto something else

4. (verb) graft, engraft, ingraft
cause to grow together parts from different plants
"graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"

5. (verb) transplant, graft
place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient

Definition of 'Graft'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Graft
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. (noun) Graft
a branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot

3. (noun) Graft
a portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty

4. (noun) Graft
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

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

6. (noun) Graft
to join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union

7. (noun) Graft
to cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns

8. (verb) Graft
to insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting

Definitions of 'Graft'

The Roycroft Dictionary

Graft
An agrarian expression first used by Ali Baba.

Translation of 'Graft'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to fix (skin, bone etc) from one part of the body on to or into another part of the body The doctor treated her burns by grafting skin from her leg on to her back.
Afrikaans: oorplant	Arabic: طَعْم، تَطْعيم	Bulgarian: присаждам
Brazilian: enxertar	Czech: transplantovat	German: transplantieren
Danish: transplantere	Greek: μεταμοσχεύω	Spanish: injertar, hacer un injert
Estonian: siirdama	Farsi: پیوند زدن	Finnish: siirtää
French: greffer	Hebrew: לְהַשׁתִיל	Hindi: प्रतिरोपण
Croatian: presaditi, transplantirat	Hungarian: átültet (testszövetet)	Indonesian: mencangkokkan
Icelandic: græða	Italian: innestare, trapiantare	Japanese: 移植する
Korean: 이식하다	Lithuanian: persodinti (audinį)	Latvian: transplantēt (audus)
Malay: menggraf	Dutch: transplanteren, overplant	Norwegian: transplantere
Polish: przeszczepiać	Persian: پیوند زدن	Pashto: پيوند وهل
Portuguese: enxertar	Romanian: a grefa, a transplanta	Russian: пересаживать кожу, кость
Slovak: transplantovať	Slovenian: transplantirati	Serbian: kalemiti
Swedish: transplantera	Thai: การปลูกถ่ายอวัยวะ	Turkish: aşılamak, yamamak
Taiwanese: 移植	Ukrainian: пересаджувати, імплантува	Urdu: قلم ، پیوند لگانا
Vietnamese: ghép	Chinese: 移植
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