What is the difference between graff and graft?
graff | graft | Alternative forms |
(slang) Graffiti.
(obsolete) A steward; an overseer.
* John Knox
* {{quote-book, year=, author=Francois Rabelais, title=Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV., chapter=, edition=
, passage=Truly, said Pantagruel, if I live to go home--which I hope will be speedily, God willing--I'll set off and graff some in my garden in Touraine, by the banks of the Loire, and will call them bon-Christian or good-Christian pears, for I never saw better Christians than are these good Papimans.}}
* {{quote-book, year=1831, author=William Stewart Rose, title=Orlando Furioso, chapter=, edition=
, passage=For where men look for fruit they graff the tree, And study still the rising plant to train; And artist uses to refine the gold Designed by him the precious gem to hold.}}
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(label) 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.
(label) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
(label) 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.
To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
(label) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
(label) To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
(graff) ("canal")
The depth of the blade of a digging tool such as a spade or shovel.
A narrow spade used in digging drainage trenches.
(label) Work; labor
(label) A job or trade.
Effort needed for doing hard work.
A criminal's special branch of practice
(label) Illicit profit by corrupt means, especially in public life.
(label) Corruption in official life.
(label) A con job.
A cut of the take (money).
A bribe, especially on an ongoing basis.
Graft is a alternative form of graff.
As nouns the difference between graff and graft
is that graff is graffiti while graft is 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.As verbs the difference between graff and graft
is that graff is alternative form of lang=en while graft is 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.graff
English
Noun
(en noun)- [A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or graff , and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.
Verb
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(wikipedia graft)Alternative forms
* graffEtymology 1
From (etyl) graffe, from (etyl) ; probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Compare graphic, grammar.Noun
Verb
(en verb)- 1717 Eloisa to Abelard. And graft my love immortal on thy fame! —
