doctor

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. 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 D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
2. 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.
3. A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
4. A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
5. (obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
6. Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
7. A fish, the friar skate.
8. (obsolete,slang) A ship's cook.

Verb

1. To act as a medical doctor to.
2. To act as a medical doctor.
3. To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
4. To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
5. To genetically alter an extant species.
6. To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
7. To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
8. (obsolete) To take medicine.

Sinónimos

physician

healer

nurse

medicine man

surgeon

medico

treat

cure

medic

repair

doc

medical doctor

Dr.

touch on

teacher

🧑‍🏫

doctor up

practitioner

medical practitioner

give medicine to

medical man

physican

medical

sorcerer

sophisticate

heal

shaman

mend

fix

restore

doctorate

attend

medicate

vet

clever man

master

chemist

remedy

dress a wound

furbish up

garble

MD

general practitioner

juggle

PhD

bushel

patch

pharmacist

prescribe

priest

prophet

quack

reclaim

revamp

rig

salve

scam

scholar

settle

stack

tamper

tend

therapist

cook the books

vamp

veterinarian

veterinary

veterinary surgeon

weld

work

Aesculapius

doctor’s degree

Md

medical assistant

practioner

tamper with

healing art

medical personnel

camphorate

hakeem

medicine

💊

Ph.D.

practise medicine

complementary unit

surgeo

senior physician

academic degree

3

adulterate

alter

amend

apothecary

apply remedies

attend to

backspace

care

care for

carry on

clinic

cook

🧑‍🍳

correct

croaker

crop

curing

deal

direct

dispose of

diviner

dresser

fake

falsify

fix up

floodwater

fudge

go

handle

harvest

healing

herbalist

husband

🤵

intern

internist

keep

magician

manage

mark

medical science

medical staff

medicine-man

mind

nurture

osteopath

Con guión como

doc‧tor

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈdɒktə/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English:

Relativo a Middle English: lerare

Relativo a Middle English: leren

Relativo a Old English: læran

Relativo a Old English: lārēow

Relativo a Old English: lǣċe

In summary

From Middle English doctor (“an expert, authority on a subject”), doctour, from Anglo-Norman doctour, from Latin doctor (“teacher”), from doceō (“I teach”). Displaced native Middle English lerare (“doctor, teacher”) (from Middle English leren (“to teach, instruct”) from Old English lǣran, lēran (“to teach, instruct, guide”), compare Old English lārēow (“teacher, master”)). Displaced Old English lǣċe (“doctor, physician”), and doublet of docent.