dose
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, especially of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
Physics.
Also called ab·sorbed dose. the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, especially living tissue, measured in grays: although increasingly disfavored, in the U.S. an absorbed dose may still be measured in rads.
Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.
to administer in or apportion for doses.
to give a dose of medicine to.
to add sugar to (champagne) during production.
to take a dose of medicine.
Origin of dose
1Other words from dose
- doser, noun
- su·per·dose, noun
- un·der·dose, noun
- un·der·dose, verb (used with object), un·der·dosed, un·der·dos·ing.
- well-dosed, adjective
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How to use dose in a sentence
Just as Palmer, taken in sixty-second doses, seems relaxed, so, measured over hours, he seems in need of a sedative.
After about five minutes his pulse disappeared, and despite a few more doses of adrenaline, it never returned.
Real Life Lazarus: When Patients Rise From the Dead | Sandeep Jauhar | August 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNever mind that there seem to have been no more than eight doses of the serum in existence.
Why the White Americans Got the ‘Secret’ Ebola Serum | Michael Daly | August 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe supercharge doses of vitamins have questionable benefits.
As with the pills, it can be cut into eight doses, either used sublingually or mixed with water and snorted.
This Anti-Heroin Drug Is Now King of the Jailhouse Drug Trade | Daniel Genis | July 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
So I have had to convey my precepts insensibly to Milord K.—to convey them in homeopathic doses of parable.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonMedicinal doses of the bromides produce in healthy persons a general diminution of nervous energy.
A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy | Alexander Hughes BennettThe first decimal trituration was given in doses of two grains gradually increased to ten grains every two hours.
The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick LaidlawIn the meantime, we recommend careful reading, mingled with wise doses of sal-prunel and Locock's wafers.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusThe only unpleasant effect that I have noted is nausea after large doses, sixty drops or more, and this in very few patients.
The Treatment of Hay Fever | George Frederick Laidlaw
British Dictionary definitions for dose
/ (dəʊs) /
med a specific quantity of a therapeutic drug or agent taken at any one time or at specified intervals
informal something unpleasant to experience: a dose of influenza
Also called: dosage the total energy of ionizing radiation absorbed by unit mass of material, esp of living tissue; usually measured in grays (SI unit) or rads
Also called: dosage a small amount of syrup added to wine, esp sparkling wine, when the sediment is removed and the bottle is corked
slang a venereal infection, esp gonorrhoea
like a dose of salts very quickly indeed
to administer a dose or doses to (someone)
med to give (a therapeutic drug or agent) in appropriate quantities
(often foll by up) to give (someone, esp oneself) drugs, medicine, etc, esp in large quantities
to add syrup to (wine) during bottling
Origin of dose
1Derived forms of dose
- doser, noun
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