Definitions for docdɒk

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

doc*dɒk(n.)

  1. doctor.

    Category: Informal

  2. a casual, impersonal term of address for a man.

    Category: Common Vocabulary, Informal

* Informal..

Origin of doc:

1845–50; by shortening

DOC

  1. Department of Commerce.

    Category: Government

doc.(pl.)docs.

  1. document.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico(noun)

    a licensed medical practitioner

    "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"

  2. Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce, DoC(noun)

    the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913

Wiktionary

  1. Doc(ProperNoun)

    A nickname for a medical doctor, a person with an advanced educational degree, or a learned person.

  2. Doc(ProperNoun)

    (slang, usually in plural) A Doc Marten shoe.

  3. Doc(ProperNoun)

    (slang, United States military) A common form of address for combat medics, especially Navy Hospital Corpsmen.

  4. Origin: From document by shortening.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. doc

    Common spoken and written shorthand for ‘documentation’. Often used in the plural docs and in the construction doc file (i.e., documentation available on-line).


Translations for doc

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

dock(noun)

a deepened part of a harbour etc where ships go for loading, unloading, repair etc

The ship was in dock for three weeks.

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