doctor
[ˈdɒktə]
n
a person licensed to practise medicine
a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge
a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine
Also called: 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
any of various gaudy artificial flies
a person who mends or repairs things
a cook on a ship or at a camp
a man, esp a teacher, of learning
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
(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
vb
to give medical treatment to.to prescribe for (a disease or disorder)
to practise medicine
he doctored in Easter Island for six years
to repair or mend, esp in a makeshift manner
to make different in order to deceive, tamper with, falsify, or adulterate
to adapt for a desired end, effect, etc
to castrate (a cat, dog, etc)
- 习惯用语
- go for the doctor to make a great effort or move very fast, esp in a horse race
- what the doctor ordered something needed or desired
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