Dictionary Entry
doctor
doctor is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
The friar skate.
- 6transitive verb
To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
- 7transitive verb
To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
- 8transitive verb
To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
- 9intransitive verb
To practice physic.
- 10noun
children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office
"the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"
- 11noun
a licensed medical practitioner
"I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"
- 12noun
a person who holds Ph.D. degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution
"she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"
- 13noun
(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching
"the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages"
- 14verb
give medical treatment to
- 15verb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
"She repaired her TV set"
"Repair my shoes please"
- 16verb
alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive
"Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
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