Collins English-English Dictionary

doctor ['dɒktə]

1. 1. n [often capital] Doctor of the Church a title given to any of several of the leading Fathers or theologians in the history of the Christian Church down to the late Middle Ages whose teachings have greatly influenced orthodox Christian thought

2. 2. n a person licensed to practise medicine

3. 3. n a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge

4. 4. n [chiefly US and Canadian] a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine

5. 5. n [angling] any of various gaudy artificial flies

6. 6. n [Spoken] a person who mends or repairs things

7. 7. n [Slang] a cook on a ship or at a camp

8. 8. n [Archaic] a man, esp a teacher, of learning

9. 9. n a device used for local repair of electroplated surfaces, consisting of an anode of the plating material embedded in an absorbent material containing the solution

10. 10. n (in a paper-making machine) a blade that is set to scrape the roller in order to regulate the thickness of pulp or ink on it

11. 11. vt. [tr] to give medical treatment to

12. 12. vt. to prescribe for (a disease or disorder)

13. 13. vi. [intr] [Spoken] to practise medicine

    he doctored in Easter Island for six years

14. 14. vt. [tr] to repair or mend, esp in a makeshift manner

15. 15. vt. [tr] to make different in order to deceive, tamper with, falsify, or adulterate

16. 16. vt. [tr] to adapt for a desired end, effect, etc

17. 17. vt. [tr] to castrate (a cat, dog, etc)

18. 18. vt. [Etymology] C14: from Latin: teacher, from docere to teach