What's the difference between airbrush and doctor?

Airbrush


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fact that property is unequally distributed so many people don't have blessed "property rights" gets airbrushed from the theory.
  • (2) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (3) The paradox at the heart of the selfie is that it masquerades as a "candid" shot, taken without access to airbrushing or post-production, but in fact, a carefully posed selfie, edited with all the right filters, is a far more appealing prospect than a snatched paparazzo shot taken from a deliberately unflattering angle.
  • (4) The UK information commissioner, one Christopher Graham, has assured the BBC that respecters of history and truth have nothing, however, to fear: "All this talk about rewriting history and airbrushing embarrassing bits from your past – this is nonsense.
  • (5) The Tories hit back at Labour’s poster showing an airbrushed picture of Cameron, next to a slogan saying public spending would fall to 1930s levels.
  • (6) The commission published the parties' election accounts today, revealing everything from their transport costs to viral internet marketing campaigns and PR stunts to the bill for airbrushing their campaign posters.
  • (7) Feig also spoke in support of the actor after an airbrushed image of a slimmed-down McCarthy was used to promote The Heat in the UK.
  • (8) David Cameron must have sighed the biggest sigh of his political career when David Miliband was airbrushed out of the picture.
  • (9) Countries using major sport to burnish their image is not new but the latest trend towards countries using sporting events as an instrument of soft power and investing huge sums in using them as giant billboards to project an airbrushed image to the world feels different.
  • (10) They want the Coalition to be able to use another slogan – “only Labor increases taxes” – which airbrushes away the tax increases Abbott presided over.
  • (11) A few years ago, when she agreed to do a photospread in Vogue, she typically turned the assignment into an act of artistic provocation, posing stark, non-airbrushed, naked and - more shockingly still - refusing to wear a single lick of makeup.
  • (12) Now, rather than airbrushing out Chagos, the mandarins want to paint it green.
  • (13) For an airbrushed but nonetheless fascinating glimpse of the man himself see the autobiographical Performing Flea and Over Seventy.
  • (14) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
  • (15) In Exterminate All the Brutes Lindqvist suggests that we have airbrushed our past: "We do not want to remember.
  • (16) "Obviously, no Labour or Lib Dem working in parliament would want to airbrush out inconvenient truths about Michal Kaminski, especially just after the creation of the new Tory grouping," he said.
  • (17) A new storm is breaking.” United, under Van Gaal, give the impression they would like to airbrush Moyes from their history.
  • (18) There will be no half-full glasses; no stalagmites of loose change; no convention of shoes in a huddle under the bed, on which the duvet cover will rest as smooth as an airbrushed forehead; and the sheets will always match the pillowcases.
  • (19) "I think it is acceptable to, say, digitally remove a van, builder's skip or washing lines, but I wouldn't airbrush permanent features such as a road sign or electricity pylon."
  • (20) Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's vast portraits, which adorned facades up and down the capital, with his black dyed hair and wrinkles carefully airbrushed, were ripped from buildings.

Doctor


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
  • (3) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
  • (4) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (5) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
  • (6) Their significance in adding to the doctor's knowledge of the patient is delineated.
  • (7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (8) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
  • (9) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
  • (10) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
  • (11) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
  • (12) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
  • (13) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
  • (14) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
  • (15) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
  • (16) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
  • (17) This paper describes a computer-based system that would allow doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and experts to participate in medical care in ways that will enhance the usefulness of the system, and will allow the system to grow, adapt and improve as a function of this participation.
  • (18) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
  • (19) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
  • (20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.

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