Transplant

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Transplant \Trans*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transplanted};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Transplanting}.] [F. transplanter, L.
     transplantare; trans across, over + plantare to plant. See
     {Plant}.]
     1. To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant
        trees. --Dryden.


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     2. To remove, and settle or establish for residence in
        another place; as, to transplant inhabitants.
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              Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese
              of St. David into a warmer climate.   --Clarendon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  transplant
       n 1: (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a
            recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor
            and recipient [syn: {graft}]
       2: an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor)
          to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"
          [syn: {transplantation}, {organ transplant}]
       3: the act of uprooting and moving a plant to a new location;
          "the transplant was successful"; "too frequent
          transplanting is not good for plants" [syn: {transplanting},
           {transplantation}]
       v 1: lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the
            young rice plants" [syn: {transfer}]
       2: be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant
          easily"
       3: place athe organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
          [syn: {graft}]
       4: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient
          Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: {transfer},
           {transpose}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "transplant":
     amputation, anastomotic operation, assign, bed,
     bloodless operation, broadcast, capital operation, carry over,
     communicate, compensating operation, consign, corneal transplant,
     crescent operation, deliver, deport, dibble, diffuse, displace,
     disseminate, drill, elective operation, embedment,
     emergency operation, entrance, excision, expel,
     exploratory operation, export, extradite, fenestration operation,
     forest, graft, grafting, hand forward, hand on, hand over,
     heart transplant, impaction, impactment, impart, implant,
     implantation, import, infixion, infusion, injection, inoculation,
     inseminate, insertion, insinuation, interjection, interpolation,
     interval operation, introduction, intromission, kidney transplant,
     major operation, make over, metastasize, metathesize,
     minor operation, move, operation, organ transplant,
     organ transplantation, palliative operation, pass, pass on,
     pass over, pass the buck, penetration, perfuse, perfusion, plant,
     pot, put in, radical operation, reforest, relay, relocate, removal,
     remove, resection, reset, resettle, retimber, scatter seed,
     section, seed, seed down, seminate, set, shift, sow, sow broadcast,
     spread, surgical intervention, surgical operation,
     surgical technique, switch, tessellation, the knife, transfer,
     transfer property, transfuse, translate, translocate, transmit,
     transplace, transplantation, transpose, turn over, uproot