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doc⋅tor

  [dok-ter]
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–noun
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
15. to practice medicine.
16. Older Use. to take medicine; receive medical treatment.
17. Metallurgy. (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME docto(u)r (< AF) < L, equiv. to doc(ēre) to teach + -tor -tor

Related forms:
doc⋅tor⋅al, doc⋅to⋅ri⋅al  [dok-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-] , adjective
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)   
n.  
  1. A person, especially a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, trained in the healing arts and licensed to practice.
    1. A person who has earned the highest academic degree awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
    2. A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.
  3. Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.
  4. Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.
  5. A practitioner of folk medicine or folk magic.
  6. A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.
  7. Any of several brightly colored artificial flies used in fly fishing.
v.   doc·tored, doc·tor·ing, doc·tors Informal

v.   tr.
  1. Informal To give medical treatment to: "[He] does more than practice medicine. He doctors people. There's a difference" (Charles Kuralt).
  2. To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.
    1. To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself: doctored the evidence.
    2. To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of: doctor the soup with a dash of sherry. See Synonyms at adulterate.
    3. To alter or modify for a specific end: doctored my standard speech for the small-town audience.
    4. Baseball To deface or apply a substance to (the ball): was ejected because he doctored the ball with a piece of sandpaper.
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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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.

Doctor

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]

Doctor

Doc"tor\, v. i. To practice physic. [Colloq.]
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Language Translation for : doctor
Spanish: médicomédico,
German: der Doktorder Doktor,
Japanese: 医師
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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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Main Entry: 1doc·tor
Pronunciation: 'däk-t&r
Function: noun
1 a : a person who has earned one of the highest academicdegrees (as a PhD) conferred by a university b : a person awarded an honorary doctorate by a college or university
2 : a person skilled or specializing in healingarts; especially : a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian licensed to practice his or her profession

Main Entry: 2doctor
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: doc·tored; doc·tor·ing /-t(&-)ri[ng]/
transitivesenses
1 : to give medical treatment to
2 : CASTRATE 1, SPAY doctored> doctor intransitive senses
: to practice medicine
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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doctor doc·tor (dŏk'tər)
n.

  1. A person, especially a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, trained in the healing arts and licensed to practice.
  2. A person who has earned the highest academic degree awarded by a university in a specified discipline.

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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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doctor

see just what the doctor ordered.

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