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What does graft mean?

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Noun
  1. (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. (countable) 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. (surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
  3. (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
  4. (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
  5. (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
  6. (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
Noun
  1. Alternative form of graff (“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. (politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  7. (Britain) (uncountable, colloquial) Work; labor
  8. (Britain) (countable, colloquial) A job or trade.
  9. (Britain) (uncountable, colloquial) Effort needed for doing hard work.
Verb
  1. To work.
  2. To obtain illegal gain from bribery of similar corrupt practices.
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