Decrease and Doctor

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

doctor

A licensed medical practitioner.
- usage: "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"
- synonyms: doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico
Roman Catholic Church. ( a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)
- usage: "the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages"
- synonyms: Doctor of the Church
Children take the roles of physician or patient or nurse and pretend they are at the physician's office.
- usage: "the children explored each other's bodies by playing the game of doctor"
A person who holds Ph. D. Degree (or the equivalent) from an academic institution.
- usage: "she is a doctor of philosophy in physics"
- synonyms: Dr.

Alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.
- usage: "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"
- synonyms: sophisticate, doctor up
Give medical treatment to.
Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.
- usage: "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
- synonyms: repair, mend, fix, bushel, furbish up, restore, touch on

(v.t.) To confer a doctorate upon; to make a doctor.
(v.i.) To practice physic.
(v.t.) To treat as a physician does; to apply remedies to; to repair; as, to doctor a sick man or a broken cart.
(n.) A teacher; one skilled in a profession or branch of knowledge learned man.
(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.
(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.
(v.t.) To tamper with and arrange for one's own purposes; to falsify; to adulterate; as, to doctor election returns; to doctor whisky.
(n.) The friar skate.
(n.) One duly licensed to practice medicine; a member of the medical profession; a physician.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Doctor is a masculine given name