Police vs. Doctor — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Police and Doctor
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Definitions
Police➦
A body of persons with a similar organization and function
Campus police. Also called police force.
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.
Police➦
(Archaic) Regulation and control of the affairs of a community, especially with respect to maintenance of order, law, health, morals, safety, and other matters affecting the public welfare.
Doctor➦
Any of certain other healthcare professionals, such as a dentist, optometrist, chiropractor, podiatrist, or veterinarian.
Police➦
The police are a constituted body of persons empowered by a state, with the aim to enforce the law, to ensure the safety, health and possessions of citizens, and to prevent crime and civil disorder. Their lawful powers include arrest and the use of force legitimized by the state via the monopoly on violence.
Doctor➦
A practitioner of alternative medicine or folk medicine who does not have traditional medical credentials.
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Police➦
A body of government employees trained in methods of law enforcement and crime prevention and detection and authorized to maintain the peace, safety, and order of the community.
Doctor➦
A person who has earned the highest academic degree, usually a PhD, awarded by a college or university in a specified discipline.
Police➦
(Informal) A group that admonishes, cautions, or reminds
Grammar police.
Fashion police.
Doctor➦
A person awarded an honorary degree by a college or university.
Police➦
The cleaning of a military base or other military area
Police of the barracks must be completed before inspection.
Doctor➦
(transitive) To act as a medical doctor to.
Her children doctored her back to health.
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Police➦
The soldiers assigned to a specified maintenance duty.
Doctor➦
Abbr. Dr. Used as a title and form of address for a person holding the degree of doctor.
Police➦
To regulate, control, or keep in order with a law enforcement agency or other official group.
Doctor➦
Roman Catholic Church An eminent theologian.
Police➦
To impose one's viewpoint or beliefs regarding, especially in an authoritarian way
Policing others' comments by implementing speech codes.
Doctor➦
A rig or device contrived for remedying an emergency situation or for doing a special task.
Police➦
To critique in a presumptuous or arrogant manner
Policed the grammar of everyone who commented on the blog post.
Doctor➦
(Informal) To give medical treatment to
"[He] does more than practice medicine. He doctors people. There's a difference" (Charles Kuralt).
Police➦
To make (a military area, for example) neat in appearance
Policed the barracks.
Doctor➦
To repair, especially in a makeshift manner; rig.
Police➦
A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly
Call the police!
Doctor➦
To falsify or change in such a way as to make favorable to oneself
Doctored the evidence.
Police➦
A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement.
The Sheriff's Department has jurisdiction across most of Chicago but focuses on the unincorporated area and tasks like prisoner transport, leaving the rest to the Chicago Police Department.
Doctor➦
To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of
Doctor the soup with a dash of sherry.
Police➦
(UK) A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory.
Doctor➦
To alter or modify for a specific end
Doctored my standard speech for the small-town audience.
Police➦
Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government.
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.
Police➦
The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; an individual police officer.
Doctor➦
To practice medicine.
Police➦
People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police.
Who called the fashion police?
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.
Police➦
Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty.
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.
Police➦
Synonym of administration, the regulation of a community or society.
Doctor➦
A veterinarian; a medical practitioner who treats non-human animals.
Police➦
(obsolete) policy.
Doctor➦
A nickname for a person who has special knowledge or talents to manipulate or arrange transactions.
Police➦
(obsolete) polity, civilization, a regulated community.
Doctor➦
(obsolete) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or a branch of knowledge; a learned man.
Police➦
(transitive) To enforce the law and keep order among (a group).
Extra security was hired to police the crowd at the big game.
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"
Police➦
To clean up an area.
Doctor➦
A fish, the friar skate.
Police➦
To enforce norms or standards upon.
To police a person's identity
Doctor➦
A ship's cook.
Police➦
A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
Doctor➦
To act as a medical doctor.
Police➦
That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
Doctor➦
(transitive) To make (someone) into an (academic) doctor; to confer a doctorate upon.
Police➦
The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
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.
Police➦
Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
Doctor➦
(transitive) To genetically alter an extant species.
Mendel's discoveries showed how the evolution of a species may be doctored.
Police➦
The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state a camp as to cleanliness.
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.
Police➦
To keep in order by police.
Doctor➦
(transitive) To adulterate, drug, or poison (drink).
Police➦
To make clean; as, to police a camp.
Doctor➦
To take medicine.
Police➦
The force of policemen and officers;
The law came looking for him
Doctor➦
A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge; a learned man.
One of the doctors of Italy, Nicholas Macciavel.
Police➦
Maintain the security of by carrying out a control
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