doctor

UK /ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/ US /ˈdɑktɚ/
noun 6verb 5phrase 1

Definitions

noun

1

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 DO, DPM, MD, DMD, or

If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.

2

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.

3

A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.

4

A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.

5

A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.

So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.

one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel

verb

1

To act as a medical doctor to.

Her children doctored her back to health.

2

To act as a medical doctor.

2017, "Do No Harm", season 8, episode 2 of Adventure Time Doctor Princess: Put this on. [gives her lab coat to Finn] OK, you're a doctor now. Good luck. Finn: Wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait! I don't know how to doctor!

3

To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.

4

To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.

We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.

5

To genetically alter an extant species.

Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.

noun

1

The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.

The students asked to see Doctor Jones.

Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.

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