doctor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deḱ-der.
Proto-Italic *dokeō
Latin doceō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin doctorbor.
Old French doctur
Anglo-Norman doctourder.
Middle English doctour
English doctor
From Middle English doctor, doctour (“an expert, authority on a subject”), from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“to teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”).
Inflected forms:
form: doctors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doctour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: doctors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doctoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doctored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doctored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: doctour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
pos: noun
gloss: A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
pos: noun
gloss: A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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
gloss: Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.
gloss: A fish, the friar skate.
pos: noun
gloss: A witchdoctor.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [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.
gloss: A ship's cook.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: […] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […]
His galley is small, and, microscopic as it is, it is shared by his brother in misery, the ship's cook, he whom the crew familiarly know as the “Doctor.”
gloss: To act as a medical doctor to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her children doctored her back to health.
gloss: To act as a medical doctor.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
intransitive
examples: 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!
gloss: To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To genetically alter an extant species.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
gloss: To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
That picture – the one that Andrew claimed on BBC’s Newsnight might have been doctored, since he had “no recollection” of then or ever meeting Giuffre at Tramp nightclub in London – will likely serve as both a prequel and postscript of the saga.
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, apologized on Monday for doctoring a photo of her with her three children, which was recalled by several news agencies on Sunday after they determined the image had been manipulated.
gloss: To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To take medicine.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
Synonyms: family doctor
general practitioner
GP
medic
physician
sawbones
surgeon
Related words: docent
doctorand
doctorate
doctrine
doctrix
Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
Doctor of Arts
Doctor of Architecture
Doctor of Applied Science
Doctor of Business Administration
Doctor of Chemistry
Doctor of Chiropractic
Doctor of Civil Law
Doctor of Criminal Justice
Doctor of Comparative
Civil Law
Doctor of Computer Science
Doctor of Criminology
Doctor of Dental Medicine
Doctor of Dental Surgery
Doctor of Design
Doctor of Education
Doctor of Environmental Design
Doctor of Engineering
Doctor of Environment
Doctor of Engineering Science
Doctor of Forestry
Doctor of Fine Arts
Doctor of Geological Science
Doctor of Hebrew Literature
Letters
Doctor of Health and Safety
Doctor of Hebrew Studies
Doctor of Industrial Technology
Doctor of Information Technology
Doctor of Juridical Science
Doctor of Library Science
Doctor of Music
Doctor of Musical Arts
Doctor of Musical Education
Doctor of Ministry
Doctor of Modern Languages
Doctor of Music Ministry
Doctor of Medical Science
Doctor of Nursing Science
Doctor of Public Administration
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine
Doctor of Pharmacy
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Physical Education
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Doctor of Podiatric Medicine
Doctor of Psychology
Doctor of Public Health
Doctor of Professional Studies
Doctor of Religious Education
Doctor of Recreation
Doctor of Science
Doctor of Science in Dentistry
Doctor of Science and Hygiene
Doctor of Science in Veterinary Medicine
Doctor of Sacred Music
Doctor of Social Science
Doctor of Social Work
Doctor of Canon Law
Doctor of the Science of Law
Doctor of Rehabilitation
Doctor of Sacred Theology
Doctor of Technology
Doctor of Theology
Doctor of the University
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary Medical Doctor
Divinitatis Doctor
Doctor of Divinity
Juris Doctor
Doctor of Law
Optometry Doctor
Doctor of Optometry
Legum Doctor
Doctor of Laws
Literarum Doctor
Doctor of Letters
Medicine Doctor
Doctor of Medicine
Music Doctor
preceptor
proctor
professor
surgeon
Derived words: abortion doctor
an apple a day keeps the doctor at bay
an apple a day keeps the doctor away
Angelic Doctor
antidoctor
barefoot doctor
bedoctor
brain doctor
Cape Doctor
cleaning-doctor
clown doctor
color-doctor
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company doctor
couch doctor
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doc
doctorable
doctoral
doctor-assisted suicide
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Doctor George Mountain
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Doctor Martens
Doctor of Divinity
Doctor of Law
Doctor of Letters
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Science
Doctor of the Chair
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
doctor's bonnet
doctor's certificate
Doctors' Commons
doctor's curse
Doctors Gap
doctor's gum
doctor-shears
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doctor shopping
doctor's note
doctor's office
Doctors of the Church
doctor's orders
doctorspeak
doctor's stuff
doctor-stuff
doctor's we
doctor up
Doctor Yellow
dog doctor
dogtor
Dr
Dr.
eye doctor
family doctor
fish doctor
flying doctor
frankenstein doctor
Frankenstein doctor
frankensteinian doctor
Frankensteinian doctor
Fremantle Doctor
good doctor
head doctor
herb doctor
honorary doctor
horse-doctor
horse doctor
I am a doctor
interdoctor
intradoctor
is anyone here a doctor
junior doctor
kaffir doctor
lint doctor
lint-doctor
mad-doctor
medical doctor
multidoctor
nondoctor
obeah doctor
outfit doctor
paradoctor
plague doctor
play doctor
pox doctor's clerk
priest-doctor
quack doctor
rain doctor
rain-doctor
resident doctor
rig doctor
root doctor
saw doctor
school doctor
script doctor
snake doctor
spin doctor
spirit doctor
subdoctor
superdoctor
teledoctor
the good doctor
under-doctor
underdoctored
under the doctor
undoctor
undoctored
water-doctor
water doctor
what the doctor ordered
just what the doctor ordered
witchdoctor
witch doctor
woman doctor
you are the doctor
you're the doctor
misdoctor
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