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doc·tor 
[dok-ter] Pronunciation Key
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[dok-ter] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian. |
| 2. | a person who has been awarded a doctor's degree: He is a Doctor of Philosophy. |
| 3. | Doctor of the Church. |
| 4. | Older Slang. a cook, as at a camp or on a ship. |
| 5. | Machinery. any of various minor mechanical devices, esp. one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process. |
| 6. | Angling. any of several artificial flies, esp. the silver doctor. |
| 7. | an eminent scholar and teacher. |
| 8. | to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to: He feels he can doctor himself for just a common cold. |
| 9. | to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to: He doctored his cold at home. |
| 10. | to restore to original or working condition; repair; mend: She was able to doctor the chipped vase with a little plastic cement. |
| 11. | to tamper with; falsify: He doctored the birthdate on his passport. |
| 12. | to add a foreign substance to; adulterate: Someone had doctored the drink. |
| 13. | to revise, alter, or adapt (a photograph, manuscript, etc.) in order to serve a specific purpose or to improve the material: to doctor a play. |
| 14. | to award a doctorate to: He did his undergraduate work in the U.S. and was doctored at Oxford. |
| 15. | to practice medicine. |
| 16. | Older Use. to take medicine; receive medical treatment. |
| 17. | Metallurgy. (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly. |
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doc·tor·al·ly, doc·to·ri·al·ly, adverb
doc·tor·less, adjective
doc·tor·ship, noun
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| doc·tor
(dŏk'tər) Pronunciation Key
n.
v. doc·tored, doc·tor·ing, doc·tors Informal v. tr.
v. intr. Informal To practice medicine. [Middle English, an expert, authority, from Old French docteur, from Latin doctor, teacher, from docēre, to teach; see dek- in Indo-European roots.] doc'tor·al adj., doc'tor·ly adj. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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doctor
c.1303, "Church father," from O.Fr. doctour, from M.L. doctor "religious teacher, adviser, scholar," from L. doctor "teacher," from doct- stem of docere "to show, teach," originally "make to appear right," causative of decere "be seemly, fitting" (see decent). Familiar form doc first recorded c.1850. Meaning of "holder of highest degree in university" is first found c.1375; that of "medical professional" dates from 1377, though this was not common till late 16c. Verb sense of "alter, disguise, falsify" is first recorded 1774.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| doctor | |
noun | |
| 1. | a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" |
| 2. | (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching; "the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages" [syn: Doctor of the Church] |
| 3. | 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" |
| 4. | a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics" |
verb | |
| 1. | alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: sophisticate] |
| 2. | give medical treatment to |
| 3. | restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" [syn: repair] [ant: break] |
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American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
doctor doc·tor (dŏk'tər)
n.
- A person, especially a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, trained in the healing arts and licensed to practice.
- A person who has earned the highest academic degree awarded by a university in a specified discipline.
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Doctor Phillips, FL (CDP, FIPS 17725) Location: 28.44923 N, 81.49249 W
Population (1990): 7963 (3239 housing units)
Area: 9.5 sq km (land), 3.8 sq km (water)
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Doctor
Doc"tor\, n. [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. (Zo["o]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.] Doctors' Commons. See under Commons. Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot. Doctor fish (Zo["o]l.), 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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]
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Doctor
Doc"tor\, v. i. To practice physic. [Colloq.]
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Doctor
(Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them questions. They assumed the office without any appointment to it. The doctors of the law were principally of the sect of the Pharisees. Schools were established after the destruction of Jerusalem at Babylon and Tiberias, in which academical degrees were conferred on those who passed a certain examination. Those of the school of Tiberias were called by the title "rabbi," and those of Babylon by that of "master."
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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