How to pronounce “doctor”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• 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.
• 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 non-human animals.
• A nickname for 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.
• (obsolete, nautical, slang) A ship's cook.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
• (intransitive, humorous) To act as a medical doctor.
• (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, figurative) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
• (transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
• (intransitive, obsolete) To take medicine.

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