ALL meanings of doctor
doc·tor
D d - noun doctor medical professional 1
- noun doctor term of address: Doctor 1
- noun doctor holder of PhD, etc. 1
- transitive verb doctor falsify 1
- noun doctor expert 1
- intransitive verb doctor act as a doctor 1
- transitive verb doctor treat medically 1
- transitive verb doctor fix 1
- transitive verb doctor alter 1
- transitive verb doctor castrate 1
- noun doctor A qualified practitioner of medicine; a physician. 1
- noun doctor a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian. 1
- noun doctor a person who has been awarded a doctor's degree: He is a Doctor of Philosophy. 1
- noun doctor Doctor of the Church. 1
- noun doctor Older Slang. a cook, as at a camp or on a ship. 1
- noun doctor Machinery. any of various minor mechanical devices, especially one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process. 1
- noun doctor Angling. any of several artificial flies, especially the silver doctor. 1
- noun doctor an eminent scholar and teacher. 1
- verb with object doctor to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to: He feels he can doctor himself for just a common cold. 1
- verb with object doctor to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to: He doctored his cold at home. 1
- verb with object doctor to restore to original or working condition; repair; mend: She was able to doctor the chipped vase with a little plastic cement. 1
- verb with object doctor to tamper with; falsify: He doctored the birthdate on his passport. 1
- verb with object doctor to add a foreign substance to; adulterate: Someone had doctored the drink. 1
- verb with object doctor 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. 1
- verb with object doctor to award a doctorate to: He did his undergraduate work in the U.S. and was doctored at Oxford. 1
- verb without object doctor to practice medicine. 1
- verb without object doctor Older Use. to take medicine; receive medical treatment. 1
- verb without object doctor Metallurgy. (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly. 1
- countable noun doctor A doctor is someone who is qualified in medicine and treats people who are ill. 0
- countable noun doctor A dentist or , veterinarian can also be called doctor. 0
- countable noun doctor The doctor's is used to refer to the surgery or office where a doctor works. 0
- countable noun doctor A doctor is someone who has been awarded the highest academic or honorary degree by a university. 0
- verb doctor If someone doctors something, they change it in order to deceive people. 0
- verb doctor If someone doctors food or drink, they add a poison or drug to it. 0
- noun doctor a person licensed to practise medicine 0
- noun doctor a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge 0
- noun doctor a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine 0
- noun doctor a title given to any of several of the leading Fathers or theologians in the history of the Christian Church down to the late Middle Ages whose teachings have greatly influenced orthodox Christian thought 0
- noun doctor any of various gaudy artificial flies 0
- noun doctor A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. 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, DPT, DC, in the US or MBBS in the UK. 0
- noun doctor a person who mends or repairs things 0
- noun doctor 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. 0
- noun doctor a cook on a ship or at a camp 0
- noun doctor A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals. 0
- noun doctor a man, esp a teacher, of learning 0
- noun doctor A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions. 0
- noun doctor a device used for local repair of electroplated surfaces, consisting of an anode of the plating material embedded in an absorbent material containing the solution 0
- noun doctor (Obsolete (No longer in use)) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man. 0
- noun doctor (in a paper-making machine) a blade that is set to scrape the roller in order to regulate the thickness of pulp or ink on it 0
- noun doctor (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency. 0