Definition of "graft" in English

noun

1. (horticulture) 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. (horticulture) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.

3. (surgery) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

verb

1. (transitive) 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. (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

3. (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.

4. (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

5. (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.

6. (chemistry) To form a graft polymer

noun

1. (obsolete) 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. (uncountable) Corruption in official life.

2. (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.

3. (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.

4. (countable) A con job.

5. (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).

6. (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.

7. (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.

   • We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done.

8. (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.

verb

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.

2. To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.