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Doctor can be a noun or a verb.
doctor used as a noun:
- 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 physician; a member of the 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 MD in the US or MBBS in the UK.
"If you still feel unwell tomorrow, go see your doctor." - A veterinarian; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick.
- A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
doctor used as a verb:
- To act as a medical doctor to.
"Her children doctored her back to health." - To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor.
- To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
"They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick." - To genetically alter an extant species.
"Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored." - To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
"To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is doctor?
- Noun usage: If you still feel unwell tomorrow, go see your doctor.
- Verb usage: Her children doctored her back to health.
- Verb usage: They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
- Verb usage: We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
- Verb usage: Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
- Verb usage: To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of doctor are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of doctor, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
