GRAFTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

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

語源 1

From 中期英語 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. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.

別の表記

• graff (archaic)

名詞

graft (plural grafts)

1. (horticulture) 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. (horticulture) 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.

派生語

動詞

graft (third-person singular simple present grafts, present participle grafting, simple past and past participle 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 or 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, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard.:

     And graft my love immortal on thy fame!

   • 2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times‎:

     Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.

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

同意語

• (to join as if by grafting): affix, attach, put together, unite, imp; see also Thesaurus:join

派生語

語源 2

From Middle Dutch graft (“canal”), from graven (“dig”). The contemporary senses “depth of digging blade” and “narrow spade” may have a separate history, but this is uncertain. Compare 古期英語 grafet (“trench”), Old Norse grǫft (“the action of digging”). Attested from the 17th century.

名詞

graft (plural grafts)

1. (obsolete) A ditch, a canal.
2. The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
   • 1798 [1792], Memoirs of Science and the Arts‎, Transactions of the Society instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, page 117:

     […] in the first operation, we dug through the peat, the hard sand, and gravel, and one spade's graft (about nine inches deep, and seven inches wide) into the quick sand, the whole length of this drain, […]

3. A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.

派生語

語源 3

Uncertain. Some lexicographers suggest an extended use of Etymology 2, above, expanding from “digging” to work more generally, and from there to dishonest work. Others, however, suggest an extension from Etymology 1, shifting from “a shoot or scion” to the notion of corruption through the idea of excrescence.

名詞

graft (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
   • 1910, O.R. Miller, The Reform Bulletin:

     If policemen take graft now from the liquor dealers for the privilege of keeping open on Sunday, what is to prevent them, if this bill is passed, from taking graft from the liquor men for the privilege of selling liquor before 1 p.m. on Sunday […] ?

7. (uncountable, British, colloquial) Work; labor requiring effort.

   We had to put in a lot of hard graft to get the job done.

   • 2022 August 16, Pippa Crerar, quoting Liz Truss, “Leaked audio reveals Liz Truss said British workers needed ‘more graft’”, in The Guardian‎:

     Liz Truss, now the Tory leadership frontrunner, launched an astonishing broadside against British workers, saying they needed “more graft” and suggesting they lacked the “skill and application” of foreign rivals, the Guardian can reveal.

8. (countable, British, colloquial) A job or trade.

派生語

動詞

graft (third-person singular simple present grafts, present participle grafting, simple past and past participle grafted)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To work hard.
2. To obtain illegal gain from bribery or similar corrupt practices.

派生語

• grafter (“grifter”)

派生語

• grift

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “graft”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. See supplements.