doctor

noun10

1. •
   a person trained in medicine whose work is to treat sick or hurt people

   • If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
2. •
   A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   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.
5. •
   A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
6. •
   (old-fashioned) Any 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"
7. •
   A fish, the friar skate.
8. •
   (no longer used) A witch doctor.
9. •
   (no longer used) A 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. — 1552
10. •
    (slang, no longer used) A ship's cook.

    • […] old Scotch Jem the boatswain, tunes his fiddle, and the doctor, (ship's cook,) produces his tambourine; the men dance on deck, […] — 1844

verb8

1. •
   To act as a medical doctor to.

   • Her children doctored her back to health.
2. •
   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.
3. •
   To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
4. •
   (humorous) To act as a medical doctor.

   • 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! — 2017
5. •
   To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
6. •
   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.
7. •
   To genetically alter an extant species.

   • Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
8. •
   (no longer used) To take medicine.

phrase1

1. •
   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. — 2016