doctor
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Danh từ
noun- 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.
Đồng nghĩa: physician, doctor, doc, leech, physic, physician, medic, medician, medical 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.
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A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
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A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
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(obsolete)A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
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(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
the doctor, or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
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A fish, the friar skate.
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(obsolete)A witchdoctor.
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(obsolete, slang)(obsolete, nautical, slang) A ship's cook.
Động từ
verb- 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!
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(transitive)To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
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(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.
We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
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(transitive)To genetically alter an extant species.
Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
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(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) 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.
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(transitive)To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
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(intransitive, obsolete)To take medicine.
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ine-pro From Middle English doctor, doctour (an expert, authority on a subject), from doctour, from Latin doctor (teacher), from doceō (to teach). Displaced native lerare (from leren from læran, compare lārēow). Displaced lǣċe.