doctor

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for doctor

doctor 🔊 /dɑˈktɚ or dɔˈktɚ/

doctor : ආචාර්යවරයා

doctor : වෙදකම් කරනවා

doctor : දොස්තර

doctor : උසස් උපාධිධරයා

doctor : වෛද්‍යුවරයා

doctor : මිශ්‍රණයෙන් දූෂිත කරනවා

doctor definition

Noun.

  1. A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
  2. 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.
  3. One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
  4. 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.
  5. The friar skate.

Transitive verb.

  1. To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
  2. To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
  3. To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

Intransitive verb. To practice physic.