| VERB | contact | graft, engraft, ingraft | cause to grow together parts from different plants |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | graft, transplant | place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | |
| NOUN | body | graft, transplant | (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient |
| act | graft, bribery | the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage | |
| act | graft, grafting | the act of grafting something onto something else |
| Sounds | grae'ft | |
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| Rhymes | aft ... witchcraft: 29 rhymes with aeft... | |
| Meaning | (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient. | |
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| Synonym | transplant | |
| Category | surgery | The branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures |
| Narrower | autograft, autoplasty | tissue that is taken from one site and grafted to another site on the same person |
| heterograft, xenograft | tissue from an animal of one species used as a temporary graft (as in cases of severe burns) on an individual of another species | |
| homograft, allograft | tissue or organ transplanted from a donor of the same species but different genetic makeup | |
| Broader | animal tissue | The tissue in the bodies of animals |
| Spanish | injerto | |
| Verbs | graft | place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient |
| Meaning | The practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage. | |
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| Synonym | bribery | |
| Narrower | barratry | The crime of a judge whose judgment is influenced by bribery |
| commercial bribery | bribery of a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into a transaction | |
| Broader | felony | A serious crime (such as murder or arson) |
| Spanish | cohecho, coima, soborno | |
| Catalan | suborn | |
| Meaning | The act of grafting something onto something else. | |
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| Synonym | grafting | |
| Broader | attachment, affixation | The act of attaching or affixing something |
| Spanish | incrustación, injerto | |
| Catalan | empelt, incrustació | |
| Verbs | graft | cause to grow together parts from different plants |
| Meaning | Cause to grow together parts from different plants. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something to somebody | |
| Example | "graft the cherry tree branch onto the plum tree" | |
| Synonyms | engraft, ingraft | |
| Broader | join, conjoin | make contact or come together |
| Spanish | injertar | |
| Catalan | empeltar | |
| Nouns | graft, grafting | the act of grafting something onto something else |
| Meaning | place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonym | transplant | |
| Entails | move | Move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion |
| Broader | insert, infix, enter, introduce | put or introduce into something |
| Spanish | injertar, trasplantar | |
| Catalan | empeltar, fer eixarts, transplantar, trasplantar | |
| Nouns | graft | (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient |
| grafting | the act of grafting something onto something else | |
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