Crossword clues for graft
graft
- Botanical transplant
- Tree surgeon's transplant
- Skin transplant
- Politician's crime, perhaps
- Politician's crime
- Political crime
- Political corruption
- Boss Tweed's crime
- Tree surgeon's procedure
- Tree surgeon's concern
- Tree surgeon procedure
- Tissue transplant
- Stick in a tree?
- Skin transplant, e.g
- Skin job
- Replace damaged skin, perhaps
- Plant connection
- Make parts of different plants grow together
- Join plants together
- Join plants
- It's a white-collar crime
- Inserted bud
- Implant plant tissue
- Illicit profit
- Hush money, e.g
- Horticultural cutting
- Do an orchard job
- Crooked politician's crime
- City hall problem
- Bribery and corruption
- Arborist's procedure
- Payola, e.g.
- White collar crime
- Payola, e.g
- Add on, as to a plant
- Some corruption
- Firmly add on
- Transplant, of a sort
- Surgeon's procedure
- Tammany Hall problem
- Bribery and such
- (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
- Surgical transplant
- Dishonest gain
- Botanical operation
- Illegal gain
- Attach
- Transplant, as skin
- Hard work producing implant
- Hard work is great in service? On the contrary
- Transplant; hard work
- Tissue transplant is hard work
- Hard work, commonly
- Political payoff
- Ill-gotten gain
- White-collar crime
- Skin replacement procedure
- Horticultural transplant
- Gardener's transplant
- Do tree surgery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Graft \Graft\, n. [Prob. orig. so called because illegitimate or improper profit was looked upon as a graft, or sort of excrescence, on a legitimate business undertaking, in distinction from its natural proper development.]
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. [Colloq.]
A ``soft thing'' or ``easy thing;'' a ``snap.'' [Slang]
Graft \Graft\, n. [OE. graff, F. greffe, originally the same word as OF. grafe pencil, L. graphium, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ? to write; prob. akin to E. carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Cf. Graphic, Grammar.]
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.
(Surg.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
Graft \Graft\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grafted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grafting.] [F. greffer. See Graft, n.]
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. [Formerly written graff.]
(Surg.) 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.
And graft my love immortal on thy fame !
--Pope. (Naut.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
Graft \Graft\, v. i. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"shoot inserted into another plant," late 15c. alteration of Middle English graff (late 14c.), from Old French graife "grafting knife, carving tool, stylus," from Latin graphium "stylus," from Greek grapheion "stylus," from graphein "to write" (see -graphy). So called probably on resemblance of a stylus to the pencil-shaped shoots used in grafting. The terminal -t- in the English word is not explained. Surgical sense is from 1871.
"corruption," 1865, perhaps 1859, American English, perhaps from graft (1) via British slang sense of "one's occupation" (1853), which seems to be from the word's original sense of "digging" (see graft (n.1)).
late 15c., from graft (n.1). Related: Grafted; grafting.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (label en countable) 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 (label en countable) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot. 3 (label en surgery countable) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty. vb. 1 (label en 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 (label en transitive surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. 3 (label en transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union. 4 (label en transitive nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns. 5 (label en intransitive) To insert scion (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. Etymology 2
n. 1 (alternative form of graff English) ("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. Etymology 3
n. 1 (label en uncountable) Work; labor 2 (label en countable) A job or trade. 3 (label en uncountable colloquial) Effort needed for doing hard work. 4 (label en uncountable slang) A criminal's special branch of practice 5 (label en uncountable) illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life. 6 (label en uncountable) corruption in official life. 7 (label en countable) A con job. 8 (label en countable slang) A cut of the take (money). 9 (label en uncountable US politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis. vb. 1 To work 2 To obtain illegal gain from bribery of similar corrupt practices.
WordNet
n. (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient [syn: transplant]
the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage [syn: bribery]
the act of grafting something onto something else [syn: grafting]
v. cause to grow together parts from different plants; "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" [syn: engraft, ingraft]
place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient [syn: transplant]
Wikipedia
Graft or grafting (generally referring to hard work) may refer to:
- Graft (politics), a form of political corruption or bribery
- Grafting, where the tissues of one plant are affixed to the tissues of another
- Graft (surgery), a surgical procedure to transplant tissue without a blood supply
- Grafting (knitting), the joining of two knitted fabrics
- Grafting (decision trees), the process of adding nodes to inferred decision trees in computer science
- Graft, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
- Graft (architects), an architecture firm
- Graft (1915 serial), a film serial
- Graft (1931 film), featuring Boris Karloff
Grafting refers to a surgical procedure to move tissue from one site to another on the body, or from another person, without bringing its own blood supply with it. Instead, a new blood supply grows in after it is placed. A similar technique where tissue is transferred with the blood supply intact is called a flap. In some instances a graft can be an artificially manufactured device. Examples of this are a tube to carry blood flow across a defect or from an artery to a vein for use in hemodialysis.
Graft, a form of political corruption, is the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. The term has its origins in the medical procedure whereby tissue is removed from one location and attached to another for which it was not originally intended. Similarly, political graft occurs when funds intended for public projects are intentionally misdirected in order to maximize the benefits to private interests. However, in the United Kingdom the word "graft" is often used to refer to hard work, usually of a physical nature; the reference to corruption is almost unheard of in British English.
Graft is a 1915 American film serial featuring Harry Carey. This serial is considered to be lost.
Graft is a 1931 American thriller film directed by Christy Cabanne, starring Regis Toomey and future talent agent Sue Carol, and featuring Boris Karloff, who appeared in Frankenstein during the same year.
Graft (stylised as GRAFT) is a design studio conceived as a ‘label’ for architecture, urban planning, exhibition design, music and the “ pursuit of happiness”. Graft was founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, California by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit, and headed by partner Alejandra Lillo from 2007 until early 2011. A second Graft office was opened 2001 in Berlin, followed by a third office in Beijing in 2004, which is headed by founding partner Gregor Hoheisel.
Graft is a sculpture by Roxy Paine. It was installed on October 26–30 2008, in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
It is part of a "Dendroids" series begun in 1998. Made of Stainless steel, it weighs 16,000 pounds.
Graft is an album by the Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The recording was inspired by the plant illustrations in the Voynich manuscript, and the design was inspired by a 1970s Jethro Tull bootleg called My God. The artwork for Hiranya was also inspired by a Jethro Tull album.
An unreleased work called " samidara1" was played during an event at ohrenhoch in Berlin, Merzbow described it as "using the method of several granular synthesis programs and random process of the composition.", and referenced Graft, Chabo, Jigokuhen, and Ouroboros as having the same concept.
Usage examples of "graft".
Sweat and tax and graft the last dollar out of the damned asterites, and take it back to buy a penthouse and a mistress and the gout in Panama City.
He wanted to know about the grafting technique my gardeners had been using with success on evergreen shrubs, how much sun was advisable on tulip beds, what proportion of cow-dung was added to the compost used for the auriculas, how much milk my cows yielded.
I then began to forsee a truth which has been clearly proved to me in my after life, namely, that love is only a feeling of curiosity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.
Skin grafting has great value after extensive burns, not because it hastens healing, which it probably does not do, but because it has a marked influence in lessening cicatricial contraction.
Thiersch therefore recommends that for the prevention of cicatricial contraction, the grafting be performed with large strips of skin.
Julie was at the entrance of the garden, where she was attentively watching Penelon, who, entering with zeal into his profession of gardener, was very busy grafting some Bengal roses.
Julius Lempert, who had invented the Lempert or fenestration operation, a delicate piece of surgery in which a new opening or window is bored through the mastoid bone and a new drum grafted over the aperture.
Interesting results have been obtained by Hart and others by grafting the fine but tender criollo on to the hardy forastero, but until yesterday the practice had not been tried on a large scale.
Great diversity in the size of two plants, one being woody and the other herbaceous, one being evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting together.
The concrete-stained sandals and filthy jellaba identified Raf as a man mostly used to casual graft.
Along the synapses of my brain, microscopic machines are implanting cultured oligodendrocytes, reversing the myelin-sheath breakdown along my neural pathways, disassembling the creaking old wetware threaded through my brain and CNS, grafting pluripotent stem cells into a collagen base to replace nerve tissue lost to injury and to scarring.
Trueheart reports a case of partial excision of the clavicle, successfully followed by the grafting of periosteal and osseous material taken from a dog.
With respect to the almost universal sterility of species when first crossed, which forms so remarkable a contrast with the almost universal fertility of varieties when crossed, I must refer the reader to the recapitulation of the facts given at the end of the eighth chapter, which seem to me conclusively to show that this sterility is no more a special endowment than is the incapacity of two trees to be grafted together, but that it is incidental on constitutional differences in the reproductive systems of the intercrossed species.
Thouin found that three species of Robinia, which seeded freely on their own roots, and which could be grafted with no great difficulty on another species, when thus grafted were rendered barren.
If it was in Australia, probably Lord Douglas was an elder son and had to do all the hard graft, and teach himself at night, and sleep in a bark skillion while his younger brothers benefited--they were born in the new brick house and went to boarding-schools.