doctor
(noun) children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician’s office; “the children explored each other’s bodies by playing the game of doctor”
doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico
(noun) a licensed medical practitioner; “I felt so bad I went to see my doctor”
doctor, Dr.
(noun) a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; “she is a doctor of philosophy in physics”
doctor
(verb) give medical treatment to
repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
(verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; “She repaired her TV set”; “Repair my shoes please”
sophisticate, doctor, doctor up
(verb) alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; “Sophisticate rose water with geraniol”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Doctor (plural Doctors)
The title of an academic or medical doctor (a person who holds a doctorate); used before or instead of the doctor's name.
• (abbreviated forms) Dr / Dr.
doctor (plural doctors)
A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O, DPM, M.D, DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a Ph.D. or Th.D. or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
A fish, the friar skate.
• Doctor is capitalized when used as a title
• In the UK and Commonwealth a surgeon (including a dental or veterinary surgeon) is commonly addressed as Mr./Ms./Mrs. rather than Doctor, even if holding a doctor's degree.
• (physician): doc (informal), family doctor, general practitioner, GP (UK), medic, physician, sawbones (slang), surgeon (who undertakes surgery); see also physician
• (veterinarian): vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeon
doctor (third-person singular simple present doctors, present participle doctoring, simple past and past participle doctored)
(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
(intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
(transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
(transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
(transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
(transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
(intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.
Source: Wiktionary
Doc"tor, n. Etym: [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere to teach. See Docile.]
1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. [Obs.] One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. Bacon.
2. An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.
3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will seize the doctor too. Shak.
4. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico- printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
– Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. G. Eliot.
– Doctor fish (Zoöl.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus; the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish. See Surgeon fish.
Doc"tor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doctored; p. pr. & vb. n. Doctoring.]
1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart. [Colloq.]
2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky. [Slang]
Doc"tor, v. i.
Definition: To practice physic. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 November 2024
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
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