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Alternative spellings
Graff (obscure)

Etymology
Middle English graffe < Old French greffe ("stylus") < Latin graphium ("stylus") < Greek γ�α�είον < γ�ά�ειν ("to write"); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Compare graphic, grammar.

Noun
graft (plural: grafts')

1. 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. 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.
4. Hard work (colloq)
5. slang A criminal's special branch of practice
6. Illicit profit by corrupt means, esp.in public life.
7. Corruption in official life.
8. A con job.
9. slang: A cut of the take (money).
10. US, context|Politics: A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis. uncountable

Translations
trans-top|small shoot or scion
Czech: roub m
Indonesian: cangkok
Spanish: injerto m
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trans-top|A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot
Indonesian: hasil pencangkokan
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trans-top|A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty
Finnish: siirrännäinen
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trans-top|A con job
Finnish: huijaus
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trans-top|A cut of the take
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trans-top|A bribe
Finnish: lahjus
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Dutch: ent m (1,2)
Italian: innesto m (1)

Verb
en-verb

1. 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. surgery To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
3. To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

#:Quotations
#:*And graft my love immortal on thy fame! � Pope

1. nautical To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
2. intransitive To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.

Translations
trans-top|To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree
Dutch: enten m
Italian: innestare
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Swedish: ymp
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trans-top|To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union
Finnish: tehdä elinsiirto
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Swedish: ymp
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trans-top|To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting
Dutch: enten m
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trans-top|To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc.
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trans-top|To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc.
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Italian: innestare
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ttbc|Swedish: stickling
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