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doctor
Noun
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A person who helps people who are sick, and looks after their health.
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A person who can work very well about a particular thing and is given the title Doctor by a university, for example a doctor in psychology could be called Doctor John Smith.
doctor
Verb
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If you doctor someone, you act as a medical doctor towards them.
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If you doctor something or someone, you change them.
s
Noun
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The nineteenth (19th) letter of the alphabet.
"s" comes after "r" and before "t"
s
Abbreviation
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S is short for south or southern.
degree
Noun
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We measure an angle using degrees. All the way around a circle is 360 degrees. Often, ° is written instead of "degrees".
A right-angled triangle has an angle of 90 degrees.
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We measure how hot or how cold it is (temperature) using degrees on a scale, such as Celsius or Fahrenheit.
It's going to be 35 degrees Celsius today.
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The amount that an object has of a certain quality.
To what degree do the two accounts of the accident agree?
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Any units used to measure specific gravity, bitterness, darkness, etc. in manufacturing commodities.
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An award (usually better than a diploma but not as good as a doctorate) given by a university or, in some countries, a college
After four years at university, she got her degree.
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The number of edges that a vertex is part of.
The corner of a cube is of degree 3, but the corners of an eight-sided solid have degree 4.