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    grafting


    1. In fact, his academic record was at best patchy; school never held much interest, there were even suggestions that he undergo ‘imprinted learning’ (a latterly illegal process of grafting knowledge onto neuron networks) such was his failure at the core subjects – even mathematics, which at the time seemed irrelevant


    2. He had spent all week grafting on a big IT project


    3. You are very, very lucky; they are in a rut and grafting every


    4. It was laughable, really, to believe that anyone could generate even the remotest bit of enthusiasm for the job of grafting together digi-recorders


    5. Were these “talents” or “loved activities”? Was this a way of taking a blank slate and grafting on to it a behavior that served the group? Such dedicated behavior had been described before in the biological realm, in bees, ants and termites


    6. to the massive grafting of the energy contained in the regressive


    7. This involves bone grafting and the use of


    8. As soon as Farah was finished grafting the microphone, Nancy healed the cuts in the hearing canal


    9. When we think of mediating with IT's emergent self-awareness, we are never with the singularity; we are only a hearing-seeing comformication – a mere pollinator of IT grafting us into the flowing of its I'mage


    10. This seed thought becomes the tree from which their imagination attempts its experimental grafting of alternative possibilities

    11. This is contrary to nature, for in grafting the practise is to graft the good olive onto the wild olive so as to improve the fruit of the wild olive


    12. Paul knew what he was talking about when he said that the grafting of the wild olive on the good olive was contrary to nature


    13. The grafting in of the Gentiles was not expected, but this once again demonstrates the power, authority and sovereignty of our God in calling the Gentiles unto Himself


    14. The Process of Grafting


    15. Consider further the process of grafting


    16. Grafting is the process of uniting parts of


    17. where the grafting took place


    18. And everywhere painters are selecting from this, and grafting it on to some of the more traditional schools of design


    19. Greenhouses are used for grafting plants


    20. Grafting refers to the horticultural method of attaching the part of one plant to another plant

    21. Making use of the grafting technique will provide you with a whole new set of plants you can cultivate


    22. "Once, sir, when I was grafting a rose-tree


    23. Julie was at the entrance of the garden, where she was attentively watching Penelon, who, entering with zeal into his profession of gardener, was very busy grafting some Bengal roses


    24. So our mercurial Ladislaw has a queer genealogy! A high-spirited young lady and a musical Polish patriot made a likely enough stock for him to spring from, but I should never have suspected a grafting of the Jew pawnbroker


    25. leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics—all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent I, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to cause stars to blaze forth there


    26. " Nothing of this triumph reached Fauchelevent in his hut; he went on grafting, weeding, and covering up his melon beds, without in the least suspecting his excellences and his sanctity


    27. Noble, for instance, informs me that he raises stocks for grafting from a hybrid between Rhod


    28. Great diversity in the size of two plants, one being woody and the other herbaceous, one being evergreen and the other deciduous, and adaptation to widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting together


    29. As in hybridisation, so with grafting, the capacity is limited by systematic affinity, for no one has been able to graft together trees belonging to quite distinct families; and, on the other hand, closely allied species and varieties of the same species, can usually, but not invariably, be grafted with ease


    30. As in reciprocal crosses, the facility of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting

    31. Something analogous occurs in grafting; for Thouin found that three species of Robinia, which seeded freely on their own roots, and which could be grafted with no great difficulty on a fourth species, when thus grafted were rendered barren


    32. We thus see that, although there is a clear and great difference between the mere adhesion of grafted stocks and the union of the male and female elements in the act of reproduction, yet that there is a rude degree of parallelism in the results of grafting and of crossing distinct species


    33. The facts by no means seem to indicate that the greater or lesser difficulty of either grafting or crossing various species has been a special endowment; although in the case of crossing, the difficulty is as important for the endurance and stability of specific forms as in the case of grafting it is unimportant for their welfare


    34. In the same manner as in grafting trees, the capacity in one species or variety to take on another, is incidental on differences, generally of an unknown nature, in their vegetative systems, so in crossing, the greater or less facility of one species to unite with another is incidental on unknown differences in their reproductive systems


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    Synonyms for "grafting"

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    "grafting" definitions

    the act of grafting something onto something else