Used as a noun it means a doctor, a doctor, a dentist or a learned person. When used as a verb it means to tamper with, falsify, diagnose, treat, and so on. Also used in relation to animals it means to castrate, veterinarian.
The word is pronounced phonetically [?d?kt?(r)] in British and [?dɑ?kt?(r)] in American. doctor has the adjective doctoral; the past tense is doctored; the past participle is doctored; the present participle is doctoring; and the third-person singular is doctors.
This is a word that is used to describe a person who is a doctor. p> Expanded Information:
I, doctor word usage：
1、doctor作博士时，表示大学里的最高学位。
2. doctor means a person who is qualified to practice medicine and is engaged in medical work.
3. doctor can occasionally be placed before a noun as a determiner.
4. doctor is abbreviated as Dr..
5. doctor can also be used as a title.
2. Common Sentences:
1. He would not dream of becoming a doctor.
2. I have a good doctor attending me.
Three common phrases:
1, Good Doctor (好医生 ; 良医 ; 绿色手术刀).
2, attending doctor (主治医师 ; 主治医生 ; 主诊医生).
Four, doctor, physician,, surgeon usage discernment: this group of words can refer to doctors. doctor for the general term, referring to the doctor to see the doctor as a profession of various disciplines of doctors; physician mainly refers to internal medicine doctors, but also can refer to the general doctor, the meaning of the word solemn, more commonly used in the United States in the English language; surgeon refers to the surgeon.
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