Doctor - English meaning

verb

Change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.

Usage examples:

Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage

verb

To change a characteristic, often slightly, or to cause this to happen

Usage examples:

[ t ] the coat was too long, so i took it back to the store to have it altered., some things in lif…

verb

To change the appearance, character, or structure of something, or to be changed in this way

Usage examples:

Just last week, the company agreed to alter some of its business practices., if they want to contin…

phrasal verb

Be fond of; be attached to

phrasal verb

To provide for a person or animal’s needs and to protect that person or animal

Usage examples:

Bob and his sister take turns caring for their elderly mother., i don’t care for seafood.

verb

Make (someone or something) different; alter or modify.

Usage examples:

Both parties voted against proposals to change the law

noun

An act or process through which something becomes different.

Usage examples:

The change from a nomadic to an agricultural society

noun

A doctor having direct contact with patients rather than being involved with theoretical or laboratory studies.

Usage examples:

Can we apply the results from this group of australian general practitioners to clinicians around t…

noun

Someone, such as a doctor, who has qualifications in an area of very skilled health work

verb

Prepare (food, a dish, or a meal) by mixing, combining, and heating the ingredients.

Usage examples:

Shall i cook dinner tonight?

noun

A person who prepares and cooks food, especially as a job or in a specified way.

Usage examples:

Susan was a school cook

noun

Transform by heating

verb

Relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition.

Usage examples:

He was cured of the disease

noun

A substance or treatment that cures a disease or condition.

Usage examples:

The search for a cure for the common cold

noun

A parish priest in a french-speaking country.

Usage examples:

The curé, after all, was an important figure in every village

verb

Pull or twist out of shape.

Usage examples:

A grimace distorted her mouth

verb

To change something from its natural or usual shape or condition

Usage examples:

Agony distorted his face., there are those who would distort the facts to serve their own political…

verb

To change something from its original, natural, or intended meaning, condition, or shape, especially in a negative way

Usage examples:

Governments are able to maintain discriminatory procurement practices which significantly distort t…

abbreviation

Doctor.

Usage examples:

The alarming trend for desperate medical sector docs and surgeons to reduce waiting lists by doing …

noun

A quantity of a medicine or drug taken or recommended to be taken at a particular time.

Usage examples:

He took a dose of cough mixture

verb

Administer a dose to (a person or animal).

Usage examples:

He dosed himself with vitamins

noun

A measured amount of a drug

Usage examples:

She was given large doses of a powerful antibiotic., stories of dramatic cancer cures should be tak…

adjective

Not genuine; imitation or counterfeit.

Usage examples:

She got on the plane with a fake passport

noun

A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham.

Usage examples:

Fakes of old masters

verb

Forge or counterfeit (something).

Usage examples:

She faked her spouse's signature

verb

Alter (information, a document, or evidence) so as to mislead.

Usage examples:

A laboratory which was alleged to have falsified test results

verb

To change documents, figures, records, etc. in order to deceive someone

Usage examples:

She was charged with falsifying bank records., the certificate had clearly been falsified., five pe…

verb

Make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and hammering it.

Usage examples:

He forged a great suit of black armour

noun

A blacksmith's workshop; a smithy.

Usage examples:

Culm was the material most widely used in the forges by blacksmiths and large quantities of the sub…

verb

Move forward gradually or steadily.

Usage examples:

He forged through the crowded streets

noun

A soft crumbly or chewy sweet made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

Usage examples:

There is nothing remotely healthy about the crumbly fudge from the burnt sugar sweet company but it…

verb

Present or deal with (something) in a vague or inadequate way, especially so as to conceal the truth or mislead.

Usage examples:

The authorities have fudged the issue

exclamation

Nonsense! (expressing disbelief or annoyance).

Usage examples:

‘you know how she despises me!’ ‘fudge! she dotes on you’

verb

Cause (a wound, injury, or person) to become sound or healthy again.

Usage examples:

His concern is to heal sick people

verb

Continuously toss into the air and catch (a number of objects) so as to keep at least one in the air while handling the others.

Usage examples:

Charles juggled five tangerines, his hands a frantic blur

noun

An act of juggling.

Usage examples:

Life's a juggle, and you make the choices that suit your life.

verb

To throw several objects into the air, catch them, and keep them moving so that at least one is always in the air

Usage examples:

[ t ] fig. many women find it hard to juggle a family and a career (= to arrange their lives so tha…

noun

An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm with suckers at both ends. many species are bloodsucking parasites, especially of vertebrates, and others are predators.

Usage examples:

The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.

verb

Habitually exploit or rely on.

Usage examples:

He's leeching off the abilities of others

noun

A doctor or healer.

verb

Handle or control (a tool, mechanism, information, etc.) in a skilful manner.

Usage examples:

He manipulated the dials of the set

verb

Influence or control shrewdly or deviously

verb

To influence or control someone to your advantage, often without that person knowing it

Usage examples:

Her success is partly due to her ability to manipulate the media., the wheelchair is designed to be…

noun

The rubbing and kneading of muscles and joints of the body with the hands, especially to relieve tension or pain.

Usage examples:

Massage can ease tiredness

verb

Rub and knead (a person or part of the body) with the hands.

Usage examples:

She massaged his tired muscles

verb

Kneading and rubbing parts of the body

abbreviation

Doctor of medicine.

Usage examples:

He attained the degree of md

abbreviation

Maryland.

noun

The chemical element of atomic number 101, a radioactive metal of the actinide series. it does not occur naturally and was first made in 1955 by bombarding einsteinium with helium ions.

noun

A medical practitioner or student.

Usage examples:

Equally, though no-one would begrudge mature students retraining as medics, it is fanciful to suppo…

noun

Variant spelling of medick.

noun

A yellow-flowered eurasian and african plant of the pea family related to alfalfa, some kinds of which are grown for fodder or green manure.

verb

Administer a drug to (someone).

Usage examples:

Both infants were heavily medicated to alleviate their seizures

verb

To treat someone with a medicine

Usage examples:

Patients are usually medicated with tranquilizers before having anesthesia.

noun

A medical practitioner or student.

Usage examples:

And like many others who had to begin life afresh, the boy initially started selling medical books …

combining form

Relating to the field of medicine.

Usage examples:

Medico-social

noun

A doctor

noun

A person trained to care for the sick or infirm, especially in a hospital.

Usage examples:

A team of doctors and nurses

verb

Give medical and other attention to (a sick person).

Usage examples:

He was gradually nursed back to health

noun

A greyish australian shark of shallow inshore waters.

Usage examples:

Here a grey nurse shark gets among the baitfish.

verb

Distort or corrupt the original course, meaning, or state of (something).

Usage examples:

He was charged with conspiring to pervert the course of justice

noun

A person whose sexual behaviour is regarded as abnormal and unacceptable.

verb

To change something from its correct use or original purpose

Usage examples:

These journalists are perverting the news., the will of the people is being perverted by their elec…

noun

A person qualified to practise medicine, especially one who specializes in diagnosis and medical treatment as distinct from surgery.

Usage examples:

Our family physician

noun

A medical doctor, esp. one who is not a surgeon

noun

The characteristic harsh sound made by a duck.

Usage examples:

I heard a quack and saw some ducks huddled together

verb

(of a duck) make a quack.

Usage examples:

Ducks quacked from the lake

noun

A person who dishonestly claims to have special knowledge and skill in some field, typically medicine.

Usage examples:

A quack doctor

verb

Provide (a sailing boat) with sails and rigging.

Usage examples:

The catamaran will be rigged as a ketch

noun

The particular way in which a sailing boat's masts, sails, and rigging are arranged.

Usage examples:

A ketch rig

noun

A trick or swindle.

noun

A doctor or surgeon.

Usage examples:

Osler - a sawbones so famous that somebody wrote a 1,400-page biography of the guy - was the first …

noun

An informal way of referring to a doctor, especially a surgeon (= a doctor specially trained to perform medical operations)

Usage examples:

The gloomiest prognosis comes from a sawbones at leeds general infirmary, who suspects that the sta…

verb

Gently calm (a person or their feelings).

Usage examples:

A shot of brandy might soothe his nerves

verb

To cause someone to be less upset or angry, or to cause something to hurt less

Usage examples:

I picked up the crying child and tried to soothe her., a soothing ointment for sunburn

noun

A medical practitioner qualified to practise surgery.

Usage examples:

Early group portraits show noble surgeons parading their medical knowledge with elitist pomp.

noun

A doctor who performs medical operations

Usage examples:

A brain/heart surgeon

verb

Regularly or frequently behave in a particular way or have a certain characteristic.

Usage examples:

Written language tends to be formal

verb

Care for or look after; give one's attention to.

Usage examples:

Varela tended plants on the roof

verb

To be likely to happen or to have a particular characteristic or effect

Usage examples:

We tend to eat at home., children tend to be like their parents., he carefully tends his garden all…

verb

Behave towards or deal with in a certain way.

Usage examples:

She had been brutally treated

noun

An event or item that is out of the ordinary and gives great pleasure.

Usage examples:

He wanted to take her to the pictures as a treat

verb

Apply a process to with the aim of preparing for a purpose