Usually means: Transplanting tissues for medical purposes.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. graft: Merriam-Webster
  2. graft, graft, graft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. graft, graft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. graft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. graft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Graft, graft: Wordnik
  7. graft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Graft, graft: Wiktionary
  9. graft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. graft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. graft: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. graft: Dictionary.com
  13. graft (1), graft (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. graft: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Graft (architects), Graft (disambiguation), Graft (politics), Graft (surgery), Graft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Graft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. graft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. graft: Rhymezone
  19. Graft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. graft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. graft: FreeDictionary.org
  22. graft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. graft: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. graft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Graft: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Graft (politics), graft: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. graft: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. graft: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Graft: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. graft: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. graft: Medical dictionary
  8. Graft: Drug Medical Dictionary
  9. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. GRAFT: Acronym Finder
  3. graft: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Graft: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. graft, graft, graft, graft, graft: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. graft: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. graft: Urban Dictionary
  4. Graft: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See grafted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
noun:  (surgery, countable) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
verb:  (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
verb:  (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
verb:  (chemistry) To form a graft polymer
noun:  (obsolete) A ditch, a canal.
noun:  The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
noun:  A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
noun:  (uncountable) Corruption in official life.
noun:  (uncountable) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) A criminal’s special branch of practice.
noun:  (countable) A con job.
noun:  (countable, slang) A cut of the take (money).
noun:  (uncountable, US, politics) A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
noun:  (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.
noun:  (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.
verb:  (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
verb:  To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.
noun:  A surname.

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