graft

  • 11graft — [n1] transplant bud*, hybridization, implant, jointure, scion, shoot, slip, splice, sprout, union; concepts 113,257 graft [n2] payoff for fraud bribe, corruption, gain, hat*, hush money*, juice*, money, money under the table*, pay, payola*,… …

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  • 12Graft — Graft, v. i. To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 13graft — graft. См. трансплантация. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 14graft — graft. См. графт. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …

    Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

  • 15graft — ▪ I. graft graft 1 [grɑːft ǁ græft] noun [uncountable] 1. informal hard work: • He put his success down to stamina, resilience, and sheer hard graft. 2. especially AmE when money or ad …

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  • 16graft — en·graft; graft·age; graft; het·ero·graft; ho·mo·graft; in·ter·graft; iso·graft; mi·cro·graft; al·lo·graft; xe·no·graft; au·to·graft; graft·er; en·graft·ment; …

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  • 17graft — I n. act of grafting, inserting 1) to do a graft 2) a bone; skin graft 3) a (skin) graft takes bribes 4) graft and corruption work (colloq.) (BE) 5) hard graft II v. (D; tr.) to graft on to, onto * * * …

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  • 18graft — graft1 [gra:ft US græft] n [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: graff graft (14 19 centuries), from Old French grafe pencil, graft , from Greek graphein to write ; because a plant graft looks like a pencil] 1.) a piece of healthy skin or bone taken from… …

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  • 19graft — I. /graft / (say grahft) noun 1. Horticulture a. a shoot or part of a plant (the scion) inserted in a groove, slit, or the like in another plant or tree (the stock) so as to become nourished by and united with it. b. the plant or tree (the united …

  • 20graft´er — graft1 «graft, grahft», verb, noun. –v.t. 1. to put (a shoot or bud from one tree or plant) into a slit in another tree or plant, so that it will grow there as a part of it; engraft. 2. to produce or improve (a fruit, flower, grain, or other… …

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