Doctor
['dɒktə] or ['dɑktɚ]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a licensed medical practitioner; 'I felt so bad I went to see my doctor'.
(noun.) a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution; 'she is a doctor of philosophy in physics'.
(verb.) give medical treatment to.
Typist: Veronica--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The friar skate.
(v. t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
(v. t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
(v. t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
(v. i.) To practice physic.
Edited by Adela
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Instructor, teacher.[2]. Adept, savant, learned man.[3]. Physician, medical practitioner.
Editor: Paula
Definition
n. one who has received from a university the highest degree in a faculty: a physician: a medical practitioner: a cleric especially skilled in theology or ecclesiastical law.—v.t. to treat as a doctor does: to adulterate: to make alterations on: to falsify: to address as doctor: to create a doctor.—v.i. to take physic: to practise medicine.—adj. Doc′toral.—ns. Doc′torate Doc′torship; Doc′toress Doc′tress a female physician.—Doctors' Commons before the establishment of the Divorce Court and Probate Court in 1857 the college of the doctors of civil law in London incorporated by royal charter in 1768; Doctor's stuff medicine.
Typed by Bartholdi
Unserious Contents or Definition
This is a most auspicious dream, denoting good health and general prosperity, if you meet him socially, for you will not then spend your money for his services. If you be young and engaged to marry him, then this dream warns you of deceit. To dream of a doctor professionally, signifies discouraging illness and disagreeable differences between members of a family. To dream that a doctor makes an incision in your flesh, trying to discover blood, but failing in his efforts, denotes that you will be tormented and injured by some evil person, who may try to make you pay out money for his debts. If he finds blood, you will be the loser in some transaction.
Typist: Veronica
Unserious Contents or Definition
One who lays you up.
Edited by Hugh
Examples
- Indeed, Doctor, said Holmes blandly. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The doctor's coming, she said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Our friend, the doctor, was hard put to it when he wrote this. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He told me, in return, that he wondered I had arrived at my time of life, without knowing that a doctor's skin was waterproof. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But, Doctor Manette. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Yes, said the doctor. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Hundreds of People The quiet lodgings of Doctor Manette were in a quiet street-corner not far from Soho-square. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He doctors sick horses, I dare say? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- One of the doctors put a mask over her face and I looked through the door and saw the bright small amphitheatre of the operating room. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He had an abnormally large but well-shaped head, and it is said that the local doctors feared he might have brain trouble. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Doctors' Commons was approached by a little low archway. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The two doctors took offence at my obstinacy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Other doctors have superseded HIM; and nobody who can help it will employ me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Be satisfied with doctoring and coddling yourself and the children, and let me look as I chuse. Jane Austen. Emma.
- THEY must put up with the man with the piebald hair, and the gipsy complexion--or they would get no doctoring at all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- No, no, Mary, no doctoring! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Even milk is not exempt, but is doctored to prevent souring, the preservative most generally used by milk dealers being formaldehyde. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Checker: Roberta