- a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
- a person who has been awarded a doctor's degree: He is a Doctor of Philosophy.
- Doctor of the Church.
- a cook, as at a camp or on a ship.
- any of various minor mechanical devices, especially one designed to remedy an undesirable characteristic of an automatic process.
- any of several artificial flies, especially the silver doctor.
- an eminent scholar and teacher.
- to give medical treatment to; act as a physician to: He feels he can doctor himself for just a common cold.
- to treat (an ailment); apply remedies to: He doctored his cold at home.
- to restore to original or working condition; repair; mend: She was able to doctor the chipped vase with a little plastic cement.
- to tamper with; falsify: He doctored the birthdate on his passport.
- to add a foreign substance to; adulterate: Someone had doctored the drink.
- 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.
- to award a doctorate to: He did his undergraduate work in the U.S. and was doctored at Oxford.
- to practice medicine.
- to take medicine; receive medical treatment.
- (of an article being electroplated) to receive plating unevenly.
- a person licensed to practise medicine
- a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge
- a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine
- 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
- any of various gaudy artificial flies
- a person who mends or repairs things
- a cook on a ship or at a camp
- a man, esp a teacher, of learning
- 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
- (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
- a cool sea breeze blowing in some countries
- to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race
- something needed or desired
- (tr)
- to give medical treatment to
- to prescribe for (a disease or disorder)
- to practise medicine
- to repair or mend, esp in a makeshift manner
- to make different in order to deceive, tamper with, falsify, or adulterate
- to adapt for a desired end, effect, etc
- to castrate (a cat, dog, etc)
