GRAFT
\ɡɹˈaft], \ɡɹˈaft], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_f_t]\
Definitions of GRAFT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
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the act of grafting something onto something else
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(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
By Princeton University
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the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
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the act of grafting something onto something else
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(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
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A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
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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.
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To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
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To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
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To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
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Acquisition of money, position, etc., by dishonest or unjust means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or any position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, legislation, pay for work not done or service not performed, etc.; illegal or unfair practice for profit or personal advantage; also, anything thus gained.
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A soft thing or easy thing; a snap.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
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A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
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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.
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To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
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To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
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To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
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Acquisition of money, position, etc., by dishonest or unjust means, as by actual theft or by taking advantage of a public office or any position of trust or employment to obtain fees, perquisites, profits on contracts, legislation, pay for work not done or service not performed, etc.; illegal or unfair practice for profit or personal advantage; also, anything thus gained.
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A soft thing or easy thing; a snap.
By Noah Webster.
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Organs, tissues, or cells taken from the body for grafting into another area of the same body or into another individual. (From Dorland, 28th ed)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A small shoot of a tree inserted into another tree; hence, something mixed with a foreign stock; colloquially, an unlawful or irrogular acceptance of money, particularly from the government of a city or state; a bribe.
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To insert as a shoot in another tree; join so as to receive support from another thing; in surgery, to transplant (tissue).
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To practice grafting; colloquially, to accept bribe money; grafting knife, a knife adapted for cutting twigs or vines for grafting.
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Grafter.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Grafter.
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A small branch used in grafting.
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To make an incision in a tree or plant, and insert in it a small branch of another: to insert in something anything not belonging to it.
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To insert cuttings into a tree.
By Daniel Lyons
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Grafter.
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To insert, as a graft; insert a graft into.
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A shoot inserted into a tree or plant so as to unite with it.
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To obtain something, as money, by dishonest means.
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Manual labor.
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Anything obtained by grafting, as money secured dishonestly.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Anything inserted into something else so as to become an integral part of the latter; specifically a bit of epidermis, strip of skin, piece of bone, tooth, etc., inserted into a part in order to supply a defect.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A small shoot of a tree, inserted into another tree as the stock which is to support and nourish it.
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To insert a shoot, as into a tree; to insert after the manner of a graft.
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To practise engrafting.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A small shoot or scion cut from one tree and inserted into a part of another.
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To insert a cutting of one tree into part of another in such a way that they unite; to insert anything into a body to which it did not originally belong.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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In surgery, a portion of living tissue transplanted from one place to another on the same or on another organism with a view to its adhesion and growth. [Old Fr.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
