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Substantiivit
- A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, DPT, DC, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
- 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.
- A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
- a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
- (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
- (dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
- A fish, the friar skate.
Verbit
- (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
- (transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
- (transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
- (transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
- (transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
Esimerkit
- If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
- By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.
- one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel
- 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.
- Her children doctored her back to health.
- 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.
- Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
- To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
- Two hundred years later, Catherine de Medici gave Henry of Navarre a book which had been heavily doctored with arsenic. Deux cents ans plus tard, Catherine de Medicis donna à Henry de Navarre un livre copieusement empoisonné à l’arsenic.
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