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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
  • 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.
  • A medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick. The final examination and qualification may award a doctorate in which case the post-nominal letters are specialties.)-->
  • A medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick.
  • The title of a doctor (whether medical or academic) used before the doctor's name. '''Abbreviation''': Dr, Dr.

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Verb:

  • transitive To act as a medical doctor to.
  • transitive To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
  • transitive To genetically alter an extant species.
  • transitive To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor.
  • transitive To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

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