Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A physician, dentist, or veterinarian.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A colloquial form of doctor, as a title of address.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. a licensed medical practitioner
Etymologies
- From document by shortening. (Wiktionary)
- Short for doctor. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It would make building new documentation tools (not to mention casual investigation) so much easier. puts some_object. documentation # or ` doc ` or ` __doc__ `, etc”
“$doc = new DOMDocument; $doc-load ( 'playlist. xml'); $playlist = $doc - documentElement; $track = $playlist-getElementsByTagName ( 'track') -”
“But filtered through the lens of the Cobain doc, is there some argument for it?”
“For immediate consideration, please send your resume in a word doc to Alicia Lu at”
“All these the MSIs and the word doc are part of one single zip file.”
“Foreplay to the doc is his forehead slamming into the headboard after I ravage his behind.”
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“If a doc is accreditted for publication, that should carry a lot of weight with respect to ethics ...”
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“This doc is a call to arms to orgs that would see WIPO revisit its role in the world, to take into account the public interest when formulating and promulgating IP policy.”
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“You get the sense that the doc is supposed to show her as down-to-earth, which is a big problem for someone who can't or won't be pinned down.”
“The doc is an opthamologist, an M.D., which is important to me.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doc’.
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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A Dalliance of Dahlias
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Rose words by mollusque
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Tulip Names II: You Know My Name
A Myriad of Iriia la mode, ace o' hearts, acclimation, adhesion, admirable, adorable you, advance, affirmed, after glow, agricola, alabama melody, alabaster queen and 1152 more...
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Choppers
Words that have been cut down from their original glory, ie. apocopes, but are still 'understandable' in the chopped form. eg. doc for doctor. Most of them are horribilisms, I know :-( Let's keep t...
doc, rep, van, bus, fridge, pub, flu, hon, santa, diff, blog, exam and 49 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for doc.
oroboros Cod in reverse. Nov 2, 2007