Doctor vs. Professor

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Doctornoun

A physician; a member of the medical profession; one who is trained and licensed to heal the sick or injured. The final examination and qualification may award a doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are D.O., DPM, M.D., DMD, DDS, in the US or MBBS in the UK.

Doctornoun

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.

Doctornoun

A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.

Doctornoun

A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.

Doctornoun

(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.

Doctornoun

(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.

Doctornoun

A fish, the friar skate.

Doctorverb

(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.

Doctorverb

To act as a medical doctor.

Doctorverb

(transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.

Doctorverb

(transitive) To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.

Doctorverb

(transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.

Doctorverb

(transitive) To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.

Doctorverb

To take medicine.

Doctornoun

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.

Doctornoun

An academical title, originally meaning a man 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.

Doctornoun

One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Doctornoun

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.

Doctornoun

The friar skate.

Doctorverb

To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.

Doctorverb

To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.

Doctorverb

To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.

Doctorverb

To practice physic.

Doctornoun

a licensed medical practitioner;

Doctornoun

(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their theological teaching;

Doctornoun

children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the doctor's office;

Doctornoun

a person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution;

Doctorverb

alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;

Doctorverb

give medical treatment to

Doctorverb

restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;

Professornoun

The most senior rank for an academic at a university or similar institution, informally also known as "full professor." Abbreviated Prof.

Professornoun

A teacher or faculty member at a college or university regardless of formal rank.

Professornoun

(archaic) One who professes something, such as a religious doctrine.

Professornoun

A pianist in a saloon, brothel, etc.

Professornoun

The puppeteer who performs a Punch and Judy show; a Punchman.

Professornoun

One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.

Professornoun

One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.

Professornoun

someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a .

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