Definition of Doctor

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Doctor

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Such diplomas may confer an honorary title only.

One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

The friar skate.

To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

To practice physic.

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Doctor Quotations

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
Groucho Marx

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck

Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim Rohn

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.
Mike Ditka

The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Sigmund Freud

When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney Dangerfield

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
Rita Rudner

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Doctor Translations

doctor in Afrikaans is dokter
doctor in Dutch is doctor
doctor in German is Arzt {m}
doctor in Hungarian is orvos, doktor
doctor in Italian is dottore, medico
doctor in Latin is medicus
doctor in Norwegian is doktor, lege

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