graft
/grɑ:ft/
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Definition
Noun:
- The act of joining one thing to another: "graft" can refer to the process of attaching a part from one plant onto another so they grow together.
- The practice of bribery or corruption: In informal contexts, "graft" means the use of illicit means, especially money, to gain an unfair advantage.
- Transplanted tissue or organ: In medicine, a "graft" is a piece of living tissue or an organ that is transplanted.
Verb:
- To transplant living tissue: To attach a piece of tissue or an organ from one body to another.
- To join plants together: To insert a shoot or bud from one plant into another so they unite and grow as one.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- The gardener performed a graft to combine two varieties of roses.
- The politician was accused of graft for accepting money in exchange for contracts.
- The patient received a skin graft after the burn.
Verb:
- Surgeons will graft the donor's kidney into the patient.
- He learned how to graft a peach branch onto a plum tree.
Advanced Usage
- "Hard graft": This idiom refers to hard, often physical, work.
- Success in this business comes from years of hard graft.
Variants and Related Words
- Grafting (n): The process or technique of making a graft.
- Bud grafting is a common horticultural technique.
- Grifter (n): A person who engages in petty swindling or graft (in the corrupt sense). This is a related but distinct word.
- The con artist was a skilled grifter.
Synonyms
- Noun (for corruption): Corruption, bribery, payoff.
- Noun (for transplant): Transplant, implant.
- Verb (for joining plants): Bud, splice, inoculate.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(Note: "Graft" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meanings are typically expressed directly.)
Related Idioms
- "Graft onto": To attach or add something to something else, often in a way that it becomes part of it.
- The new regulations were grafted onto the existing law.
Noun
- the act of grafting something onto something else
- the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage
- (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
Verb
- place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
- cause to grow together parts from different plants
- graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree