Doctor vs Computer - What's the difference?
doctor | computer |
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 doctor degree in which case the post-nominal letters are , DMD, DDS, DPT, DC, in the US or MBBS in the UK.
* Shakespeare
A person who has attained a doctorate, such as a or one of many other terminal degrees conferred by a college or university.
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats animals.
(A nickname for) a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
* Francis Bacon
(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
* 2010 , Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology (page 172)
A fish, the friar skate.
To act as a medical doctor to.
To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
To physically alter (medically or surgically) a living being in order to change growth or behavior.
To genetically alter an extant species.
To alter or make obscure, as with the intention to deceive, especially a document.
(now, rare, chiefly, historical) A person employed to perform computations; one who computes.
* 1927 , J. B. S. Haldane, Possible Worlds and Other Essays , page 173
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, page 116:
by restriction, a male computer, where the female computer is called a computress
A programmable electronic device that performs mathematical calculations and logical operations, especially one that can process, store and retrieve large amounts of data very quickly; now especially, a small one for personal or home use employed for manipulating text or graphics, accessing the Internet, or playing games or media.
As nouns the difference between doctor and computer
is that doctor is while computer is calculator, computer.doctor
English
Alternative forms
* doctour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor .
- By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death / Will seize the doctor too.
- one of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel
- the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous colouring matter
- the doctor , or auxiliary engine, also called "donkey engine"
- The use of a disk doctor may be the only way of recovering valuable data following a disk crash.
Usage notes
* Doctor is capitalized when used as a title: *: Doctor SmithSynonyms
* (physician) doc (informal), family doctor, general practitioner, GP (UK), medic, physician, sawbones (slang), surgeon (who undertakes surgery ) * (veterinarian) vet, veterinarian, veterinary, veterinary surgeonDerived terms
See also'' Types of academic doctor ''below * an apple a day keeps the doctor away * Angelic Doctor * barefoot doctor * the Cape Doctor * cleaning-doctor * color-doctor, colour-doctor * bedoctor * clown doctor * company doctor * couch doctor * dedoctor * doc * doctoral * doctor-assisted suicide * doctor blade * doctor-box * doctordom * doctoress, doctress * doctor-fish * doctor-gum * doctorhead, doctorhood * doctorish * doctorishness * doctorism * doctorise, doctorize * doctorless * doctorly * Doctor Martens * Doctor of Divinity * Doctor of Law * Doctor of Letters * Doctor of Philosophy * Doctor of Science * Doctor of the Chair * Doctor of Veterinary Medicine * Doctors' Commons * doctor's curse * doctor's gum * doctor-shears * doctorship * doctor's orders * the Doctors of the Church * doctorspeak * doctor's stuff, doctor-stuff * Dr, * family doctor * flying doctor * the Fremantle Doctor * herb doctor * horse-doctor * just what the doctor ordered, what the doctor ordered * lint-doctor * mad-doctor * paradoctor * quack doctor * rain-doctor * saw doctor * school doctor * snake doctor * spin doctor * under-doctor * underdoctored * under the doctor * undoctor * undoctored * water-doctor * witch doctor * woman doctor * you are the doctor, you're the doctorVerb
(en verb)- Her children doctored her back to health.
- They doctored their apple trees by vigorous pruning, and now the dwarfed trees are easier to pick.
- We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
- ''Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored .
- To doctor the signature of an instrument with intent to defraud is an example of forgery.
See also
* doctorand * * surgeonStatistics
* ----computer
Noun
(en noun)- Only a few years ago Mr. Powers, an American computer , disproved a hypothesis about prime numbers which had held the field for more than 250 years.
- One Harvard computer , Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.