graftとは

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɑːft/
• (米国発音, Northern England) IPA^(key): /ɡɹæft/
• 韻: -ɑːft, -æft

語源 1

From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Compare graphic, grammar.

名詞

graft (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 grafts)

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, countable) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.

動詞

graft (三人称単数 現在形 grafts, 現在分詞 grafting, 過去形および過去分詞形 grafted)

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. (intransitive) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
3. (transitive, surgery) To implant a portion of (living flesh または akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
4. (transitive) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.

   1717 Eloisa to Abelard. And graft my love immortal on thy fame! — Alexander Pope

5. (transitive, nautical) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
6. (chemistry) To form a graft polymer

語源 2

名詞

graft (複数形 grafts)

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.

派生語

• grafting tool

名詞

graft (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 grafts)

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. (uncountable, US, 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.

動詞

graft (三人称単数 現在形 grafts, 現在分詞 grafting, 過去形および過去分詞形 grafted)

1. To work.
2. To obtain illegal gain from bribery of similar corrupt practices.

派生語

• grafter (“grifter”)

派生語

• grift

参照

• graft in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 See supplements.