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Definition: Doc |
DocNoun1. A licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "doc" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Doc /dok/ n. 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). Source: Jargon File. |
Census | Designation for the (Department of Commerce). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
DOC files enable compression of text, however no formatting is enable to be encoded in the DOC format - however this keeps files small, keeping with the Palm philosophy.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "DOC."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DOC | Danish | Opløst organisk kulstof | N/A |
DOC | Dutch | Opgelost organisch koolstof | N/A |
DOC | English | DNA-overhang cloning | N/A |
DOC | French | CD-ROM | Computing |
DOC | Italian | Carbonio organico disciolto | N/A |
| Me DOC | German | Multimediale elektronische Dokumenten | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DocSynonyms: doctor (n), medico (n), physician (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Doc |
| Specialty definitions using "doc": Directed Oc, doco ♦ MDL ♦ PL/M, PLM, POOL-T ♦ two-tone. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Doc" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (dock). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hey Doc. These are some nice wheels here what do ya call this thing? (Dr. Dolittle 2; writing credit: Larry Levin) Say it in English, Doc. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) She was fifteen years old, going on thirty-five, Doc, and she told me she was eighteen, she was very willing, I practically had to take to sewing my pants shut. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben) You been a good friend to me, Doc. (Wyatt Earp; writing credit: Dan Gordon; Lawrence Kasdan) Of course you didn't that wouldn't be ethical, would it doc (The Haunting; writing credit: David Self) | |
Lyrics | Funk Doc how we do it (Left & Right Featuring Method Man And Redman; performing artist: D'Angelo) Who's the doc that he told you to go see (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Doc Elliot (1973) The Daffy Doc (1938) Who Killed Doc Robin? (1931) Old Doc Gloom (1916) Doc in the Ring (1915) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | The "Doc", Michelle Rainey - first woman to winter over at the South Pole. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Doc Schane communicates with AQUARIUS aquanauts during decompression. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
Facing camera: Doc Hatfield, from Brothers, OR, and the OR/WA State Director Elaine Zielinski, and Connie Hatfield at the Steens designation discussion. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. | Troy Nichols (Gordon Smith's aide), Doc Hatfield, Stacie Davies, and Secretary Babbitt discuss the Steens designation. Credit: Mark Armstrong & Chris Strebig. | ||
![]() | "- So that is the whole story Doc..." / [William] Sharp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Just Liquor doc. / William Sharp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Lieutenant David McCampbell, Landing Signal Officer, bringing in planes, circa late 1941 or early 1942. Behind him is the Assistant Landing Signal Officer, Ensign George E. "Doc" Savage. In the catwalk in the lower center are Len Ford (enlisted man) and Lieutenant Hawley Russell. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Doc Crandall. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Doc Casey. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | There they found Doc Poe --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Doc Sane | Opportunity is as scarce as oxygen; men fairly breathe it and do not know it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In addition to the adoption of PIPP, the U.S. DOC has also requested that the GOJ commissioning entities facilitate U.S. firms' participation in Japan's public design works through enhancement of opportunities for joint venture work between U.S. and Japanese design firms. (references) | |
As a recent Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) story, "What's Up Doc," Feb. 24, 2000, highlighted, privately provided healthcare is rapidly on the rise in China as private clinics and hospitals proliferate across the country; in this article, Chia Chee Keong, senior vice-president of Vista Healthcare Asia, commented, "there is a burgeoning Chinese population that can afford private health care." However, while both Chinese and foreign providers are attracting a growing number of patients from varying socio-economic levels, privately provided healthcare represents a microscopic portion of the total medical services market and is still unaffordable for the vast majority of Chinese. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Doc" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.15% of the time. "Doc" is used about 325 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 62.15% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.85% | 110 | 30,952 |
| Unclassified Items | 4% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 325 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "doc": baby Doc ♦ Papa Doc. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "doc": Doc-lap, doc-shoed. | |
Ending with "doc": post-doc. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
doc martens | 1,251 | doc illinois | 61 |
doc | 1,015 | doc mn | 60 |
doc johnson | 338 | doc truyen | 59 |
doc holliday | 337 | doc optical | 57 |
doc holiday | 328 | doc nys | 57 |
pdf to doc | 249 | aetna doc find | 56 |
doc nc | 222 | doc love | 55 |
doc watson | 165 | no doc mortgage | 51 |
doc oklahoma | 154 | doc fl | 48 |
no doc loan | 141 | doc indiana | 47 |
doc florida | 136 | doc marten shoes | 46 |
doc nj | 135 | doc martens shoes | 46 |
doc martin shoes | 123 | north carolina doc | 45 |
convert pdf to doc | 112 | doc walker | 44 |
doc marten | 105 | doc martin boot | 43 |
doc savage | 104 | doc marten sandal | 41 |
convert doc pdf | 91 | doc boot | 40 |
doc hollywood | 85 | doc severinsen | 40 |
pdf doc converter | 75 | convert wps to doc | 38 |
doc finder | 69 | doc truyen.com | 35 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "doc"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Doktor (doctor, medic, physician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | "октор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Dokument (document). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | den anden halvdel af en dobbeltcirkulationskondensator, der er forsynet med et kontinuerligt rensesystem for koeleroerene (second pass of a two-pass condenser equipped with a continuous condenser tube cleanino system %R F doc 96ll/67/e/lO). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tweede deel van een condensor met twee-voudige circulatie en een continu systeem voor de reiniging der pijpen (second pass of a two-pass condenser equipped with a continuous condenser tube cleanino system %R F doc 96ll/67/e/lO). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | la seconde partie du condensateur double circulation pourvue d'un dispositif de nettoyage continu des tubes de réfrigération (second pass of a two-pass condenser equipped with a continuous condenser tube cleanino system %R F doc 96ll/67/e/lO). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Doktor (doctor, doctoral, dr., physician, quack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | για το δεύτερο μέρος ενός συμπυκνωτού διπλής ροής έχει προβλεφθεί μια διάταξη για την πραγματοποίηση συνεχούς καθαρισμού των σωλήνων ψύξη (second pass of a two-pass condenser equipped with a continuous condenser tube cleanino system %R F doc 96ll/67/e/lO), αρβύλες (Doc Martins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | Doktor (doctor, physician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dottore (doctor, dr., graduate, master, physician). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, post office, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ocday doutor (doctor). (various references) Medic (doctor, medical man, medico, physician). (various references) "октор. (various references) doktor (doctor, dr, md, physician). (various references) Doctor (doctor, physician). (various references) Doktor (doctor, physician). (various references) Doktor (doctor, healer, leech, medic, medico, medico-, physician, therapist). (various references) Лікар. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "doc": docent, docents, docetic, docile, docilely, docilities, docility, dock, dockage, dockages, docked, docker, dockers, docket, docketed, docketing, dockets, dockhand, dockhands, docking, dockland, docklands, dockmaster, dockmasters, docks, dockside, docksides, dockworker, dockworkers, dockyard, dockyards, docs, doctor, doctoral, doctorate, doctorates, doctored, doctoring, doctorless, doctors, doctorship, doctorships, doctrinaire, doctrinaires, doctrinairism, doctrinairisms, doctrinal, doctrinally, doctrine, doctrines, docudrama. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "doc": postdoc. (additional references) | |
Words containing "doc": boondock, boondocks, braggadocio, braggadocios, burdock, burdocks, cladoceran, cladocerans, diplodocus, diplodocuses, endocardia, endocardial, endocarditis, endocarditises, endocardium, endocarp, endocarps, endocast, endocasts, endochondral, endocrine, endocrines, endocrinologic, endocrinological, endocrinologies, endocrinologist, endocrinologists, endocrinology, endocytoses, endocytosis, endocytotic, haddock, haddocks, idocrase, idocrases, indocile, indocilities, indocility, indoctrinate, indoctrinated, indoctrinates, indoctrinating, indoctrination, indoctrinations, indoctrinator, indoctrinators, lidocaine, lidocaines, neuroendocrine, neuroendocrinological, neuroendocrinologies. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "doc" (pronounced dÄ"k) |
| 3 | d Ä" k | dock, undock. |
| 2 | -Ä" k | antiknock, antilock, Bach, Bangkok, bloc, block, Bock, Brock, caulk, chalk, chock, clock, cock, Croc, crock, floc, flock, frock, hock, interlock, Jock, knock, Loch, lock, Mach, mock, Nock, overstock, pock, restock, Roc, rock, schlock, shock, smock, sock, stock, unlock, walk, wok. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cod. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-o" | |
-1 letter: do, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-o" | |
+1 letter: clod, coda, code, cods, coed, cold, cord, deco, dock, docs, odic. | |
+2 letters: acold, chord, clods, cloud, codas, codec, coded, coden, coder, codes, codex, codon, coeds, coked, colds, coled, condo, coned, cooed, coped, cords, cored, coted, coude, could, coved, cowed, coxed, coyed, credo, crowd, decor, decos, decoy, dicot, disco, docks, dolce, dolci, domic, douce, duroc, iodic, octad, scold, scrod, scudo, sodic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 6F 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101111 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D o c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 006F 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)388169 |
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