Doctor vs. Mister — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Doctor and Mister
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Doctor
A person who is licensed to practice medicine and has trained at a school of medicine or a school of osteopathic medicine; a physician.
Mister
Variant form of Mr, often used humorously or with offensive emphasis
Look here, mister know-all
Doctor
Any of certain other healthcare professionals, such as a dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or veterinarian.
Mister
A device with a nozzle for spraying a mist of water, especially on houseplants.
Doctor
A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.
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Mister
Used as a courtesy title before the surname, full name, or professional title of a man, usually written in its abbreviated form
Mr. Jones.
Mr. Secretary.
Doctor
A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
Mister
Used as the official term of address for certain US military personnel, such as warrant officers.
Doctor
A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.
Mister
Mister Informal Used as a form of address for a man
Watch your step, mister.
Doctor
Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.
Mister
(Informal) One's husband or boyfriend
My mister says hello.
Doctor
Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.
Mister
A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child.
You may sit here, mister.
Doctor
A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.
Mister
(obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
Doctor
(Informal) To give medical treatment to
"[He] does more than practice medicine. He doctors people. There's a difference" (Charles Kuralt).
Mister
A kind, type of.
Doctor
To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.
Mister
(obsolete) Need (of something).
Doctor
To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself
Doctored the evidence.
Mister
(obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
Doctor
To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of
Doctor the soup with a dash of sherry.
Mister
A device that makes or sprays mist.
Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.
Doctor
To alter or modify for a specific end
Doctored my standard speech for the small-town audience.
Mister
(ambitransitive) To address by the title of "mister". 18
Doctor
(Baseball) To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement
Was ejected because he doctored the ball with a piece of sandpaper.
Mister
To be necessary; to matter.
Doctor
To practice medicine.
Mister
A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
To call your name, inquire your where,Or what you think of Mister Some-one's book,Or Mister Other's marriage or decease.
Doctor
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.
If you still feel unwell tomorrow, see your doctor.
Mister
A trade, art, or occupation.
In youth he learned had a good mester.
Doctor
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.
Mister
Manner; kind; sort.
But telleth me what mester men ye be.
Doctor
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
Mister
Need; necessity.
Doctor
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
Mister
To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.
Doctor
(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
Mister
To be needful or of use.
As for my name, it mistereth not to tell.
Doctor
(dated) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency.
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"
Mister
A form of address for a man
Doctor
A fish, the friar skate.
Doctor
A ship's cook.
Doctor
(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
Her children doctored her back to health.
Doctor
To act as a medical doctor.
Doctor
(transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
Doctor
(transitive) 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.
We may legally doctor a pet to reduce its libido.
Doctor
(transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
Doctor
(transitive) 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.
Doctor
(transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
Doctor
To take medicine.
Doctor
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.
One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel.
Doctor
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.
Doctor
One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.
By medicine life may be prolonged, yet deathWill seize the doctor too.
Doctor
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.
Doctor
The friar skate.
Doctor
To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
Doctor
To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
Doctor
To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
Doctor
To practice physic.
Doctor
A licensed medical practitioner;
I felt so bad I went to see my doctor
Doctor
(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their theological teaching;
The Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages
Doctor
Children take the roles of doctor or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the doctor's office;
The children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor
Doctor
A person who holds Ph.D. degree from an academic institution;
She is a doctor of philosophy in physics
Doctor
Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive;
Sophisticate rose water with geraniol
Doctor
Give medical treatment to
Doctor
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;
She repaired her TV set
Repair my shoes please
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