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Princeton's WordNet

  1. doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., mediconoun

    a licensed medical practitioner

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

  2. Department of Commerce, Commerce Department, Commerce, DoCnoun

    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. Docnoun

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

  2. Docnoun

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

  3. Docnoun

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

  4. Etymology: From document by shortening.

ChatGPT

  1. doc

    A DOC most commonly refers to a document file in Microsoft Word Binary File Format. It includes text, images, formatting, styles, drawn objects and other document settings. DOC files are used in everything from letters and resumes to reports, flyers, documentation, invitations, among others. In a broader context, "doc" could also refer to any kind of document or a shorthand for a doctor in some contexts.

Wikidata

  1. Doc

    In computing, DOC or doc is a filename extension for word processing documents, most commonly in the Microsoft Word Binary File Format. Historically, the extension was used for documentation in plain text, particularly of programs or computer hardware on a wide range of operating systems. During the 1980s, WordPerfect used DOC as the extension of their proprietary format. Later, in the 1990s, Microsoft chose to use the DOC extension for their proprietary Microsoft Word format. The original uses for the extension have largely disappeared from the PC world.

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).

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Anagrams for doc »

  1. CDO

  2. C.O.D.

  3. COD

  4. cod

  5. OCD

  6. ODC

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of doc in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of doc in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of doc in a Sentence

  1. Colin Strother:

    The overwhelming majority of voters don't know the difference between the GDP, the NFL's AFC East and the rapper DOC, telling a single mother or retiree who sees prices going up every month that some macroeconomic indicator says everything is OK will not get you very far.

  2. Nicholas Weaver:

    [ Permission-based blockchains ] are 20-year-old ideas, whenever someone says' private blockchain,' just mentally replace that with a Google Doc that can only be updated.

  3. Jim Jordan:

    It was almost as though he taught Larry Nasser what he did, doc Strauss was more prolific.

  4. Lori Varnell:

    Doc Gallagher is one of the worst offenders I have seen.

  5. Doc Rivers:

    They don’t believe I could jump at all, ... I said, ‘You guys do know I’m named Doc. It’s not after a doctor. It’s after a guy who could jump.’.

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