graft

Meanings

Plural: grafts

Noun

• (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
• the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
• the act of grafting something onto something else
• 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

• cause to grow together parts from different plants
  • "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree"
• place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
• 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
• To work hard.
• To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.

Synonyms

affix, attach, bribery, engraft, grafting, imp, ingraft, join, put together, transplant, unite