Doctor

noun doctors · doctour

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 DDS in the US, or MBBS or BDS in the UK. If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
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. obsolete 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.
6. dated Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency. the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
7. A fish, the friar skate.
8. obsolete A witch doctor. [T]he material operation is that the doctor would catch a certain species of lizard under particular circumstances at a particular time. He would croon over it the name of the man while gently rattling his ‘devil bones,’ thus calling up the evil spirit that follows these particular charmed bones.
9. obsolete, slang A ship's cook. […] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]

Similar: family doctor, general practitioner, GP, medic, physician, sawbones, surgeon

verb doctors · doctoring · doctored · doctour

1. transitive To act as a medical doctor to. Her children doctored her back to health.
2. humorous, intransitive 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. transitive To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
4. transitive 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.
5. transitive To genetically alter an extant species. Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
6. figuratively, transitive To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document. To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
7. transitive To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink). There is no doubt that a few months ago Creake deliberately planned to poison her with some weed-killer. […] The gist of it was that she had the strongest suspicion that Creake doctored a bottle of stout which he expected she would drink for her supper when she was alone.
8. intransitive, obsolete To take medicine.

proper noun the Doctor

1. abbreviation Short for Fremantle Doctor.Fremantle Doctor

noun Doctors

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.

phrase

1. A mnemonic to help remember the difference between the Spanish verbs ser and estar (both meaning "to be"); ser is generally used for: Descriptions, Occupations, Characteristics, Times, Origins, and Relationships. SER is used to classify or identify attributes like, description, occupation, characteristic, time, origin or relationship. The acronym D-O-C-T-O-R could be helpful to remember it.