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doctor

1. a person licensed to practise medicine

2. a person who has been awarded a higher academic degree in any field of knowledge

3. Chiefly US and Canadian a person licensed to practise dentistry or veterinary medicine

4. a title given to any of several of the leading Fathers or theologians in the history of the Christian Church down to the late Middle Ages whose teachings have greatly influenced orthodox Christian thought

5. Angling any of various gaudy artificial flies

6. Archaic a man, esp a teacher, of learning

7. a device used for local repair of electroplated surfaces, consisting of an anode of the plating material embedded in an absorbent material containing the solution

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doctor [′däk·tər]

(meteorology)

A cooling sea breeze in the tropics.

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Doctor 

(doctor blade), a thin blade in the shape of a knife that is part of a machine used for intaglio printing or stenciling. Doctors for intaglio printing are made of steel and are used to remove excess ink from the surface of the printing cylinder. In stenciling, rubber blades are used for spreading and squeezing the thick ink through the openings of the stencil.