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Doctor - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Doctor : (noun)
1: a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to
see my doctor" [syn: doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico]
2: (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who
distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their
theological teaching; "the Doctors of the Church greatly
influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages"
[syn: Doctor of the Church, Doctor]
3: children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and
pretend they are at the doctor's office; "the children
explored each other's bodies by playing the game of
doctor"
4: a person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic
institution; "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"
[syn: Dr.]
(verb)
1: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;
"Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: sophisticate,
doctor up]
2: give medical treatment to
3: restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn
or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes
please" [syn: repair, mend, fix, bushel, furbish
up, restore, touch on] [ant: break]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Doctor : \Doc"tor\, n. [OF. doctur, L. doctor, teacher, fr. docere
to teach. See Docile.]
1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of
knowledge learned man. [Obs.]
One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel. --
Bacon.
2. 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.
3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the
medical profession; a physician.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death Will
seize the doctor too. -- Shak.
4. 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.
5. (Zo["o]l.) The friar skate. [Prov. Eng.]
Doctors' Commons. See under Commons.
Doctor's stuff, physic, medicine. --G. Eliot.
Doctor fish (Zo["o]l.), any fish of the genus Acanthurus;
the surgeon fish; -- so called from a sharp lancetlike
spine on each side of the tail. Also called barber fish.
See Surgeon fish.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Doctor : \Doc"tor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Doctored; p. pr. & vb.
n. Doctoring.]
1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to
repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
[Colloq.]
2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to
falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to
doctor whisky. [Slang]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Doctor : \Doc"tor\, v. i.
To practice physic. [Colloq.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Friar \Fri"ar\, n. [OR. frere, F. fr[`e]re brother, friar, fr.
L. frater brother. See Brother.]
1. (R. C. Ch.) A brother or member of any religious order,
but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz:
(a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b)
Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) White
Friars or Carmelites. See these names in the Vocabulary.
2. (Print.) A white or pale patch on a printed page.
3. (Zo["o]l.) An American fish; the silversides.
Friar bird (Zo["o]l.), an Australian bird ({Tropidorhynchus
corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; --
called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor
soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to
several other species of the same genus.
Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds
and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of benzoin,
styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of
benzoin. --Brande & C.
Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood.
Friar's_cowl_(Bot.),_an_arumlike_plant_({Arisarum_vulgare">Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant ({Arisarum vulgare)
with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl.
Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp.
--Milton.
Friar skate (Zo["o]l.), the European white or sharpnosed
skate ({Raia alba); -- called also Burton skate,
border ray, scad, and doctor.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Doctor : (Luke 2:46; 5:17; Acts 5:34), a teacher. The Jewish doctors
taught and disputed in synagogues, or wherever they could find
an audience. Their disciples were allowed to propose to them
questions. They assumed the office without any appointment to
it. The doctors of the law were principally of the sect of the
Pharisees. Schools were established after the destruction of
Jerusalem at Babylon and Tiberias, in which academical degrees
were conferred on those who passed a certain examination. Those
of the school of Tiberias were called by the title "rabbi," and
those of Babylon by that of "master."
Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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Doctor : Doctor: In a medical context, any medical professional with an MD, a PhD, or any other doctoral degree. The term doctor is quite nonspecific. A doctor may, for example, be a physician,
psychologist, biomedical scientist, dentist, or veterinarian. In a nonmedical context, a professor of history might be addressed as doctor, an eminent theologian might be named a doctor of a church,
and a person awarded an honorary doctorate by a college or university might also be called a doctor.
The word "doctor" comes from the Latin "docere" meaning to teach. A doctor was a teacher, especially a learned or authoritative one.
Based on Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [Bible_Dictionary]:
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