DOCTORphrase/ˈdɒktə/

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  A mnemonic to help remember the difference between the Spanish verbs ser and estar (both meaning "to be"); ser is generally used for: Descriptions, Occupations, Characteristics, Times, Origins, and Relationships.

  • SER is used to classify or identify attributes like, description, occupation, characteristic, time, origin or relationship. The acronym D-O-C-T-O-R could be helpful to remember it.
  • You can use the acronyms DOCTOR and PLACE to help you remember ser vs. estar, particularly for more specific cases when you’re not sure which verb to use.

Doctornoun

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  The title of an academic or medical doctor; used before or instead of the doctor's name.

  • The students asked to see Doctor Jones.
  • Doctor Smith carried out the medical procedure.

doctornoun/ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/

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  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.
  • By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.
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  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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  obsoleteA teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.

  • So from that tyme forwarde I began to ſmell the word of god, and forſoke the ſchole doctors and ſuch foolries.
  • one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel
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  datedAny 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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  obsoleteA witchdoctor.

  • [T]he material operation is that the doctor would catch a certain species of lizard under particular circumstances at a particular time. He would croon over it the name of the man while gently rattling his ‘devil bones,’ thus calling up the evil spirit that follows these particular charmed bones.

doctorverb/ˈdɒktə(ɹ)/

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  To act as a medical doctor to.

  • Her children doctored her back to health.
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  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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  To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.

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  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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  To genetically alter an extant species.

  • Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
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  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.
  • That picture – the one that Andrew claimed on BBC’s Newsnight might have been doctored, since he had “no recollection” of then or ever meeting Giuffre at Tramp nightclub in London – will likely serve as both a prequel and postscript of the saga.
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  To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).

  • There is no doubt that a few months ago Creake deliberately planned to poison her with some weed-killer. […] The gist of it was that she had the strongest suspicion that Creake doctored a bottle of stout which he expected she would drink for her supper when she was alone.
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  obsoleteTo take medicine.