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University faculty member
A doctoral advisor (also dissertation director, dissertation advisor; or doctoral supervisor) is a member of a university faculty whose role is to guide
Doctoral_advisor
American physicist (born 1958)
variable, the phase difference across a Josephson tunnel junction. His doctoral advisor was John Clarke. During this time, he collaborated with Michel Devoret
John_M._Martinis
American professor of physics emeritus at University of Florida
under the supervision of John David Jackson. Starting in 1971, he did post-doctoral work at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In 1973 he moved to California
Richard_D._Field
Computer scientist (born 1986)
computer science in 2007, and a PhD in computer science in 2013. His doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Hinton. In 2012, Sutskever built AlexNet in collaboration
Ilya_Sutskever
American economist (born 1983)
from Harvard University with a doctorate in economics in 2010. His doctoral advisors at Harvard included David Cutler, who served in the Clinton administration
Stephen_Miran
American business executive (born 1969)
electrical engineering under doctoral advisors Dimitri A. Antoniadis and James E. Chung. MIT Technology Review reports that as a doctoral candidate, Su was "one
Lisa_Su
American computer scientist and educator
Mathematics Genealogy Project lists Frank Thomson Leighton as his doctoral advisor. After completing his doctorate, Rao held a scientist position at NEC
Satish_B._Rao
American domestic terrorist (1942–2023)
Michigan's best mathematics dissertation of the year. Shields, then his doctoral advisor, called it "the best I have ever directed", and Maxwell Reade, a member
Ted_Kaczynski
American molecular biologist (born 1961)
biology from Princeton University in 1991. Her doctoral advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman. Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function
Mary_E._Brunkow
British theoretical physicist (born 1953)
(ICTP). Deutsch is linked to Paul Dirac through his doctoral advisor Dennis Sciama, whose doctoral advisor was Dirac. Deutsch was elected a fellow of the Royal
David_Deutsch
British astrophysicist
stars. She is a member of the Galaxy Zoo collaboration, run by her doctoral advisor, Chris Lintott. Smethurst hosts her own YouTube channel, called Dr
Becky_Smethurst
American computer scientist (born 1954)
earned a Ph.D. in systems engineering (also from USC), where his Ph.D. advisor was noted computer scientist Barry Boehm. In 1976, he began work at what
Neil_Siegel
Person with more and deeper knowledge in a specific area
and Ken Zampese Doctoral advisor, an advanced member of a university faculty with the role of guiding a graduate student Combine Advisor, a fictional creature
Adviser
American computer scientist (born 2000)
as an "unusually talented student" and became her undergraduate thesis advisor. Tang eventually developed a new classical algorithm for a matrix completion
Ewin_Tang
English physicist and musician (born 1968)
show The Incredible Human Journey, Callum Roberts, a chief scientific advisor for Blue Planet II, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Cox also appeared
Brian_Cox_(physicist)
American engineer (1929–2013)
skills that have served them throughout their careers. Bose was the doctoral advisor to MIT professor Alan V. Oppenheim, who is well known for his work
Amar_Bose
Swiss physicist (1849–1916)
University of Zurich. He was Albert Einstein's doctoral advisor or Doktorvater. Initially Einstein's advisor was Heinrich F. Weber. However, they had a major
Alfred_Kleiner
Romanian–American computer scientist
of dominant resource fairness. Stoica under the supervision of his doctoral advisor Hui Zhang won the Association for Computing Machinery Ph.D. dissertation
Ion_Stoica
Web-based database for the academic genealogy of mathematicians
mater, doctoral advisor, and doctoral students. The project grew out of founder Harry Coonce's desire to know the name of his advisor's advisor. Coonce
Mathematics_Genealogy_Project
Canadian astrophysicist
following PhD junior researchers as promotor (doctoral advisor) or as copromotor (secondary doctoral advisor). Roman, Nancy Grace (December 31, 2003). "Anne
Anne_Barbara_Underhill
Turkish-American economist (born 1967)
1992. His doctoral thesis was titled Essays in Microfoundations of Macroeconomics: Contracts and Economic Performance. His doctoral advisor was Kevin
Daron_Acemoglu
Chinese American neuroscientist (1963-2024)
of Medicine in 1991. Her doctoral dissertation was titled, Molecular studies of hepatitis B virus, and her doctoral advisor was William S. Robinson. Wu's
Jane_Ying_Wu
German theoretical physicist (1868–1951)
new era of theoretical physics. Sommerfeld served as doctoral advisor and postdoctoral advisor to seven Nobel Prize winners and supervised at least 30
Arnold_Sommerfeld
American chemist (1948–1997)
University in 1970 and her doctorate from Columbia University in 1975. Her doctoral work was supervised by Stephen J. Lippard. She joined Dartmouth's faculty
Karen_Wetterhahn
President of South Korea from 1960 to 1962
Yun became Advisor to the Department of Agriculture and Commerce of the US Military Government, Administrative Advisory Committee, Advisor to the Financial
Yun_Po-sun
American mathematician
Fellow in 1978. He then did doctoral study in applied mathematics at MIT, receiving a Ph.D. in 1985. His doctoral advisor was F. Thomson Leighton, and
Peter_Shor
American neuroscientist and podcaster (born 1975)
Berkeley. While at Berkeley, Huberman approached Carla J. Shatz to be his doctoral advisor; however, she declined the offer, concerned that he had a limited background
Andrew_Huberman
American engineer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his doctoral committee consisted of Clifford Winston (advisor), Daniel McFadden (Nobel Prize laureate in Economics
Fred_Mannering
Indonesian-American academic (born 1970)
inspire people everywhere to become active peacebuilders. Soetoro-Ng's doctoral research at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa focused on Multicultural
Maya_Soetoro-Ng
Prime Minister of Canada since 2025
learning-by-doing and spillovers", and his doctoral thesis was titled "The dynamic advantage of competition". His doctoral advisor was Margaret Meyer. While at Oxford
Mark_Carney
American developmental and synthetic biologist
Foundation post-doctoral fellowship 1997 Alexander Imich Award, paper on cognitive science and consciousness 1992-1995 NSF pre-doctoral fellowship for
Michael_Levin_(biologist)
Computer scientist and Duolingo co-founder
using the skills and knowledge of bilingual speakers. During Hacker's doctoral studies, Duolingo became a by-product of this idea, or "happy mistake."
Severin_Hacker
American medical physicist and astronaut (born 1983)
American Astronomical Society’s Beth Brown Memorial Award in 2009. His doctoral research involved developing radio telescope instrumentation and data processing
Christopher Williams (astronaut)
Christopher_Williams_(astronaut)
Iron fish, heated when cooking food, used against iron deficiency
returning to Canada to start his Master's program, Charles called his doctoral advisor Alastair Summerlee to postpone his hormone research project. Summerlee
Lucky_iron_fish
Irish-American political scientist (1936–2015)
research interest and received his Ph.D. in government in 1967. His doctoral advisor at Cornell was Southeast Asian scholar George Kahin. The violence following
Benedict_Anderson
Canadian AI researcher
probabilistic graphical models, and large-scale optimization. Salakhutdinov's doctoral advisor was Geoffrey Hinton. Salakhutdinov was considering quitting the field
Ruslan_Salakhutdinov
Taiwanese businessman and electrical engineer (born 1931)
Master of Engineering (M.E.) in 1955. Chang did not pass two consecutive doctoral qualification examinations and eventually left MIT without obtaining a
Morris_Chang
German mathematician (1765–1825)
for his work on differential equations and as Carl Friedrich Gauss's doctoral advisor. Johann Friedrich Pfaff was born 22 December 1765 to Friedrich Burkhard
Johann_Friedrich_Pfaff
American political theorist (born 1964)
influences for his form of Catholic communitarianism, including his doctoral advisor Wilson Carey McWilliams, Wendell Berry, Christopher Lasch, and Alexis
Patrick_Deneen
German astronomer (1788–1864)
Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Julius Plücker. Gerling, whose father was also called Christian
Christian_Ludwig_Gerling
Latvian-American AI researcher (born 1979)
leave 99% of workers unemployed by 2030. Yampolskiy has been a research advisor of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute,[citation needed] and an
Roman_Yampolskiy
Austrian former student and murderer of Moritz Schlick
Moritz Schlick, who was his doctoral advisor, and graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy on March 21, 1931, with the doctoral thesis "The Importance of Logic
Johann_Nelböck
Indian-American economist (born 1971)
Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 2001 after completing a doctoral dissertation titled "Three essays on international capital flows: a search
Gita_Gopinath
American scientist and podcast host (born 1983)
his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering at Drexel in 2014. His doctoral dissertation, Learning of Identity from Behavioral Biometrics for Active
Lex_Fridman
Premier of China from 2013 to 2023
as being able to "withstand any kind of inspection" by his doctoral advisor, Li's doctoral dissertation, "On the ternary structure of Chinese economy"
Li_Keqiang
American chemist and computer scientist (born 1985)
theoretical chemistry from the University of Chicago in 2017. His doctoral advisors at the University of Chicago were Tobin R. Sosnick and Karl Freed
John_M._Jumper
Taiwanese executive and electrical engineer
He then completed doctoral studies in the U.S., earning his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1985. His doctoral dissertation, completed
Che-Chia_Wei
Nigerian-American academic (born 1984)
Schools: Beyond the PTA Meeting. Gloria Bonilla-Santiago was Osefo's doctoral advisor. Osefo is a contributor for The Hill, the founder and chief executive
Wendy_Osefo
Chinese-American computer scientist and professor
degree in 2011. His doctoral dissertation was titled Single image haze removal using dark channel prior (2011), and his doctoral adviser was Tang Xiao'ou
Kaiming_He
American psychologist and behavior geneticist
from the University of Virginia in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Her doctoral advisor was Eric Turkheimer. Harden's research has focused on using genetic
Kathryn_Paige_Harden
Academic or professional degree
A doctorate (from Latin doctor, meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational
Doctorate
German computer scientist
the direction of Rudolf Bayer at the Technical University of Munich. His doctoral research led to the development of the UB-Tree. From 1997 to 2000, he was
Volker_Markl
Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)
thesis advisor was Lipót Fejér, who was also the thesis advisor for John von Neumann, George Pólya, and Pál Turán. In 1934, Erdős took up a post-doctoral fellowship
Paul_Erdős
German mathematician (1719–1800)
doctoral students were Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben, Johann Pfaff (doctoral advisor of Carl Friedrich Gauss), Johann Tobias Mayer, Heinrich Wilhelm Brandes
Abraham_Gotthelf_Kästner
American theoretical physicist (1918–1988)
received a PhD from Princeton in 1942; his thesis advisor was John Archibald Wheeler. In his doctoral thesis titled "The Principle of Least Action in Quantum
Richard_Feynman
Jamaican-American economist (born 1938)
1960, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1966. His doctoral dissertation, Inflation, Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth: A Theoretical
Donald_J._Harris
American computer scientist (born 1984)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and remained there to complete his doctoral studies in computer science. His Master's dissertation, External-Memory
Jelani_Nelson
German physicist (1901–1976)
April 1935, the eminent theoretical physicist Sommerfeld, Heisenberg's doctoral advisor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, achieved emeritus status
Werner_Heisenberg
Links between academics based on mentorships
prioritizing their degree of relationship to a mentor/advisor as follows: (1). doctoral students, (2). post-doctoral researchers, (3). master's students and (4)
Academic_genealogy
German mathematician and astronomer (1790–1868)
instructor, Johann Pfaff, at the University of Halle, where he completed his doctoral thesis The occultation of fixed stars in 1815. In 1816, he was appointed
August_Ferdinand_Möbius
German economist
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, where his doctoral advisor was Ivan Werning. From 2018 to 2019, Straub was a postdoctoral fellow
Ludwig_Straub
American mathematician (1925–2019)
at Austin. Tate married twice. His first wife was Karin Artin, his doctoral advisor's daughter. Together they had three daughters, six grandchildren, and
John_Tate_(mathematician)
French physicist and chemist (1859–1906)
involved delicate equipment – balances, electrometers, etc. Before his famous doctoral studies on magnetism, Curie designed and perfected an extremely sensitive
Pierre_Curie
American astrophysicist, author, and scientific philosopher
University of Michigan with the physicist Dragan Huterer as his doctoral advisor. His doctoral thesis concerned primordial non-Gaussianity, which he would
Adam_Becker
Soviet mathematician (1903–1987)
predator–prey systems. During the Great Purge in 1936, Kolmogorov's doctoral advisor Nikolai Luzin became a high-profile target of Stalin's regime in what
Andrey_Kolmogorov
Finnish-born American statistician (1941–2024)
The Ljung–Box test for time series data is named after her and her doctoral advisor, George E. P. Box. She has written textbooks on time series analysis
Greta_M._Ljung
American historian and author (born 1966)
University. Her doctoral dissertation was titled The politics of taste: Classicism in Charleston, South Carolina, 1815-1840. Her doctoral advisor was Edward
Maurie_McInnis
Taiwanese-American mathematician
from Harvard in 1976 and 1979, respectively. His doctoral advisor was Phillip A. Griffiths. His doctoral thesis was titled "Variation of Hodge Structure
Loring_W._Tu
American computer scientist
Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011, where his doctoral advisors were Michael I. Jordan and Dan Klein. After completing his doctorate
Percy_Liang
Indonesian academic and politician (born 1979)
Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude in 2004 and continued her doctoral studies at Northwestern University, earning her PhD in 2010. After completing
Stella_Christie
American historian
Revolutions: Epistolary Identities in an Atlantic World, 1760-1815. Her doctoral advisor was Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Pearsall is a fellow of the Royal Historical
Sarah_Pearsall
Romanian-American aerospace engineer and inventor
multiple parabolic flights to simulate a microgravity environment. His doctoral advisors were Yasuhiro Kamotani and Simon Ostrach, both of whom had conducted
Salvatore_Pais
American mathematician at UCLA (born 1943)
the University of California, Berkeley in 1969. His doctoral advisor was Hung-Hsi Wu; his doctoral thesis was titled Isometric Embeddings of Riemannian
Robert_Everist_Greene
Canadian computer scientist (born 1964)
ServiceNow as an advisor. Bengio currently serves as scientific and technical advisor for Recursion Pharmaceuticals and scientific advisor for Valence Discovery
Yoshua_Bengio
American scholar and professor
visiting professor at Stanford University. At the NPS, he was the doctoral advisor for Quinn J. Rhodes, and Charles C. Readinger. In 2025, he was nominated
S._Paul_Kapur
German mathematician
surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer. (in German) Biography of Scherk Heinrich Scherk at
Heinrich_Scherk
American mathematician (1914–2005)
at the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1937 to 1939, he enrolled in the doctoral program in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, where
George_Dantzig
American scientist (born 1933)
contribution of excitons to the complex dielectric constant of crystals". His doctoral advisor was Albert Overhauser. Hopfield spent two years in the theory group
John_Hopfield
Romanian-Canadian computer scientist and engineer
Apache Spark as a faster alternative to MapReduce. He received the 2014 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD research on large-scale computing. In 2013
Matei_Zaharia
American computer scientist and professor (born 1948)
advanced by computer scientist A. Harry Klopf. Barto was joined by his doctoral student Sutton in using mathematics toward furthering the concept and using
Andrew_Barto
Greek physicist
academic great-granddaughter of Enrico Fermi, via her doctoral advisor John Huth and his advisor Owen Chamberlain. In 2008, Spiropulu was elected as a
Maria_Spiropulu
American anthropologist (1958–2025)
an emphasis in biological anthropology, with John G. Fleagle as his doctoral advisor. He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor
Jeffrey_Meldrum
American psychologist and academic administrator
psychology from Yale University. Her doctoral studies concentrated on child clinical and community psychology. Her doctoral advisor at Yale University was Edmund
Ana_Mari_Cauce
American politician (born 1981)
in communications from the University of South Florida in 2012. Her doctoral advisor was Jane Jorgenson. Letlow's dissertation was titled Giving Meaning
Julia_Letlow
American philosopher (1930–2018)
to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Levi also served as doctoral advisor to prominent formal philosophers, including Horacio Arló-Costa and
Isaac_Levi
Indian-British astronomer
Technology (BHU) Varanasi before pursuing a M.S. and Ph.D. at MIT. His doctoral advisor was Sara Seager. During his PhD, Madhusudhan developed an improved
Nikku_Madhusudhan
American political scientist
at the Hoover Institution. From 2021 to 2023, she served as the senior advisor for China in the Department of Commerce. Economy was previously at the
Elizabeth_Economy
Doctoral degree peculiar to Japan
applicant write a dissertation under the guidance of a doctoral advisor while taking a doctoral course of study. The character 乙 is often used at the beginning
Ronbun_hakase
Canadian American academic administrator
religion from Emory University in 2010, with Mark D. Jordan as his doctoral advisor. Blackwood lectures and writes on the intellectual and cultural development
Stephen_J._Blackwood
Japanese economist (born 1951)
PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral advisor was Stanley Fischer. After working at the University of British Columbia
Kazuo_Ueda
Spanish machine learning researcher
along with Noam Shazeer and Jeff Dean. On 2025 he received an honorary doctoral degree by his home university, UPC. Ilya Sutskever Pascual, Manuel G. (2022-12-03)
Oriol_Vinyals
American academic and engineer
doctorate at Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. His doctoral advisor was Richard Mattson. Patt has spent much of his career pursuing aggressive
Yale_Patt
Japanese philosopher and historian of economic thought (born 1987)
of Berlin where he was enrolled until 2015. Andreas Arndt was his doctoral advisor.[citation needed] Saito was subsequently[when?] a visiting scholar
Kohei_Saito
American astrophysicist
of astronomy at Columbia University; during this period, he was the doctoral advisor to Neil deGrasse Tyson. After two years (1996-1998) as a senior research
R._Michael_Rich
British and American astronomer (1900–1979)
not eligible to receive a doctoral degree (PhD) for her studies at Harvard University, as the university did not grant doctoral degrees to women at the
Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin
German actor (born 1942)
The Child [de] (2012) - Frederik Losensky Der Minister [de] (2013) - Doctoral advisor A Heavy Heart (2015) - Specht Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) - Commander
Reiner_Schöne
German electronics engineer (1923–2022)
eventually become his wife. Gummel joined Bell Laboratories in 1956; his doctoral advisor, Melvin Lax, had moved from Syracuse University to Bell the previous
Hermann_Gummel
German physicist (1843–1912)
Helmut and Richard: physicians. Albert Einstein considered Weber a doctoral advisor. Following a bitter disagreement with Weber, Einstein switched to Alfred
Heinrich_Friedrich_Weber
American mathematician (1932–2013)
M.A. in 1956, and then later his Ph.D. in 1959. Roger Lyndon, his doctoral advisor, was a mathematician whose main mathematical focus was in group theory
Kenneth_Appel
German chemist (1876–1959)
for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939
Adolf_Windaus
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Dearest; Alert; Doctor
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The 7th Son of the 7th Son; Someone of the Medical
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Doctor
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Mighty Man; Lord of Mankind; Doctor
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witch doctor; necromancer.
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Healer; Like; Similar to; Doctor; A Physician; Hawk; Little Hawk; Grateful
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English : from Middle English gurnard, gurnade ‘gurnard’, ‘gurnet’, a marine fish with a large spiny head, mailed cheeks, and three pectoral rays (genus Trigla), possibly named from French grognard ‘grumbler’, on account of the grunting noise it makes.
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Doctor; teacher.
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Sage; Philosopher; Physician; Doctor
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Doctor.
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Helper; Doctor; Medicine
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He who Cures; Doctor
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Irish (Munster)
Irish (Munster) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÃceadh ‘descendant of Ãcidhe’, a byname meaning ‘doctor’, ‘healer’.English : from a pet form of Hick.
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King Henry the Eighth' Doctor Butts, physician to the King.
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Healer; Starting Life at Dawn; A Physician; Doctor
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Arujuna wiil
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Possesser of Gold Necklace
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Arabic, Farsi, Iranian, Muslim, Parsi
Learned; Intelligent
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Highness
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
River Jhelum in Sanskrit
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An Angel
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Morning; Great; Dawn
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The Lord of the Universe
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Pearl
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Celebrity, Hindu, Indian, Tamil, Telugu
Hero; Confidence and Power; Bright; Peacock; Son of Lord Indra; Strong and Brave; Pandava Prince; Arjuna Defeats Nagaloka King for that He is Named as Nagarjuna
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a.
Having the breast conspicuously colored; as, the pectoral sandpiper.
a.
Situated behind, or posterior to, the mouth.
n.
A female doctor.
a.
Of or pertaining to the breast, or chest; as, the pectoral muscles.
a.
Like a doctor or learned man.
adv.
In the manner of a doctor.
n.
Doctorate.
n.
An academical title, originally meaning a men 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.
a.
Of or pertaining to a sector; as, a sectoral circle.
v. t.
To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
v. t.
To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
v. t.
To make (one) a doctor.
n.
A female doctor.
n.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Doctor
n.
The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
a.
Relating to, or good for, diseases of the chest or lungs; as, a pectoral remedy.
v. t.
To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Doctor
a.
Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor.