doctor

of medicine: 1. a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian. 2. a person licensed to practice dentistry or veterinary medicine. 3. a person, especially a physician, dentist, or veterinarian, trained in the healing arts and licensed to practice. of degrees: 1. a person who has been awarded a doctor's degree: He is a Doctor of Philosophy. 2. a person who has earned one of the highest academic degrees (such as a PhD) conferred by a university: Most of the college's faculty members are doctors in their fields. // The class is being taught by Doctor Menzer. —Merriam-Webster.  3. a person awarded an honorary doctorate (such as an LLD or Litt D) by a college or university. 4. a person who has earned the highest academic degree awarded by a university in a specified discipline. Recent Example: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) released letters from three doctors on Monday showing he is "fit and ready to serve as president" after suffering a heart attack earlier this year. —Jonathan Easley, 12.30.19 {2:37 PM EST} of church: 1. Doctor of the Church (see below). 2. a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge. of a teacher: 1. a learned or authoritative teacher. 2. an eminent scholar and teacher. other: 1. material added (as to food) to produce a desired effect. 2. a blade (as of metal) for spreading a coating or scraping a surface. 3. a person who restores, repairs, or fine-tunes things. verb: 1. to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to: He feels he can doctor himself for just a common cold. 2. to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to: He doctored his cold at home. 3. to restore to original or working condition; repair; mend: She was able to doctor the chipped vase with a little plastic cement. 4. to tamper with; falsify: He doctored the birthdate on his passport. 5. to add a foreign substance to; adulterate: Someone had doctored the drink. 6. 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. 7. to award a doctorate to: He did his undergraduate work in the U.S. and was doctored at Oxford. 8. to practice medicine. 9.  Older Use. to take medicine; receive medical treatment. 10. to give medical treatment to. 11. to prescribe for (a disease or disorder). 12. to repair or mend, esp in a makeshift manner. 13. to make different in order to deceive, tamper with, falsify, or adulterate. 14. to adapt for a desired end, effect, etc. 15. to castrate (a cat, dog, etc). 16. a person skilled or specializing in healing arts. 17. one (such as a physician, dentist, or veterinarian) who holds an advanced degree and is licensed to practice: See your doctor if the condition worsens; an eye doctor; doctors' bills. 18. medicine man.  19. to give medical treatment to: doctored her ailing husband. 20. to restore to good condition : repair: doctor an old clock. 21. to adapt or modify for a desired end by alteration or special treatment: doctored the play to suit the audience; the drink was doctored. 22. to alter deceptively accused of doctoring the election returns: The pitcher tried to cheat by doctoring the baseball. 23. to practice medicine: a career doctoring in the country. 24. Dialect. to take medicine. Related Words: physician, expert, specialist, professor, scientist, surgeon, reconstruct, medicate, revamp, alter, misrepresent, fudge, falsify, quack, medic, intern, healer, MD, medico, doc. Synonyms: (Noun) croaker [slang], doc, medic, medico, physician, sawbones [slang]. (Verb) treat. Examples: He needed medicine but refused to go to a doctor. // She was under doctor's orders not to return to work. —Merriam-Webster. in ecclesiastical sense: 1. Also called: Doctor of the Church (often capital) 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. 2. Christianity : an eminent theologian declared a sound expounder of doctrine by the Roman Catholic Church. doctor's degree: 1. any of several academic degrees of the highest rank, as the Ph.D. or Ed.D., awarded by universities and some colleges for completing advanced work in graduate school or a professional school. 2. an honorary degree conferring the title of doctor upon the recipient, as with the LL.D. degree. 3. a degree awarded to a graduate of a school of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary science. Also called doctorate (for defs 1, 2). Doctor of the Church: a title conferred on an ecclesiastic for great learning and saintliness. Ph.D.: (abbreviation for) Doctor of Philosophy. From the Latin phrase "Philosophiae Doctor." Also: DPhil. Doctor of Philosophy: 1. Also called doctorate. the highest degree awarded by a graduate school, usually to a person who has completed at least three years of graduate study and a dissertation approved by a board of professors. 2. a person who has been awarded this degree. Abbreviation: Ph.D. 3. a doctorate awarded for original research in any subject except law, medicine, or theology. Abbreviation: PhD, DPhil. doctorate: the highest academic degree in any field of knowledge. J.D.: Doctor of Jurisprudence; Doctor of Law. From the New Latin word "Jūris Doctor" or "Jūrum Doctor." [New Latin juris doctor] doctor of jurisprudence; doctor of law or [New Latin jurum doctor] doctor of laws. doctor of jurisprudence: 1. juris doctor. 2 doctor of the science of law. Juris Doctor: 1. a degree conferred by a law school usually after three years of full-time study. First Known Use: 1904. History and Etymology: (New) Latin, doctor of law. 2. the lowest degree conferred by a law school usually after three years of full-time study or its equivalent — compare master of laws, doctor of laws, doctor of the science of law. Note: The juris doctor replaced the bachelor of laws as the first degree conferred by a law school in 1969. Not all states mention the J.D. or LL.B. specifically as a requirement for admission to the bar, but all states do require graduation from a law school. doctor of the science of law: a degree conferred for advanced study, research, and completion and approval of a dissertation in law — compare doctor of laws, juris doctor, master of laws. master of laws: a degree conferred for advanced study of law following the obtaining of a juris doctor — compare doctor of laws, doctor of the science of law. doctor of laws: an honorary law degree — compare doctor of the science of law, juris doctor, master of laws. LLD: doctor of laws. History and Etymology for LLD: New Latin legum doctor. Litt D: doctor of letters; doctor of literature. History and Etymology: Medieval Latin litterarum doctor. Variant: Lit D. medicine man: a person especially among American Indian groups who is believed to possess supernatural powers that can heal illnesses and keep away evil spirits : shaman. shaman: 1 a priest or priestess who uses magic for the purpose of curing the sick, divining the hidden, and controlling events. 2. one who resembles a shaman 3. high priest. high priest: the head of a movement or chief exponent of a doctrine or an art. (older) slang: a cook, as at a camp or on a ship. in machinery: 1. any of various minor mechanical devices, especially one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process. 2. (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. in angling: 1. any of several artificial flies, especially the silver doctor. 2. any of various gaudy artificial flies.  in metallurgy: 1. (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly. 2. 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. informal: 1. a person who mends or repairs things. 2. to practice medicine: he doctored in Easter Island for six years. of a breeze: a cool sea breeze blowing in some countries: the Cape doctor. "go for the doctor," Australian slang. to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race. "what the doctor ordered," something needed or desired. archaic: a man, esp a teacher, of learning. Origin: 1275–1325; Middle English docto(u)r (< Anglo-French) < Latin, equivalent to doc(ēre) to teach + -tor -tor. C14: from Latin: teacher, from docēre to teach. First Known Use: Noun: 14th century. Verb: 1712. History and Etymology: Noun and Verb: Middle English doctour teacher, doctor, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin doctor, from Latin, teacher, from docēre to teach — more at docile. Added: 12.30.19 {3:40 PM} Source 1, Source 2.