Graft

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
3. isim A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
4. fiil 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.
5. fiil To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
6. fiil To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
7. fiil 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!”

8. fiil To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
9. fiil To form a graft polymer
10. isim A ditch, a canal.
11. isim The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.

    “[…] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain,[…]”

12. isim A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
13. isim Corruption in official life.
14. isim Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
15. isim A criminal’s special branch of practice.
16. isim A con job.
17. isim A cut of the take (money).
18. isim A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.

    “If policemen take graft now from the liquor dealers for the privilege of keeping open on Sunday, what is to prevent them, if this bill is passed, from taking graft from the liquor men for the privilege of selling liquor before 1 p.m. on Sunday[…]?”

19. isim Work; labor requiring effort.

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

20. isim A job or trade.
21. fiil To work hard.
22. fiil To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
23. özel isim A surname.