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 absorbed dose.the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, especially living tissue: measured in gray or rad.
meda specific quantity of a therapeutic drug or agent taken at any one time or at specified intervals
informalsomething unpleasant to experiencea dose of influenza
Also called: dosagethe 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: dosagea small amount of syrup added to wine, esp sparkling wine, when the sediment is removed and the bottle is corked
slanga venereal infection, esp gonorrhoea
like a dose of saltsvery quickly indeed
verb(tr)
to administer a dose or doses to (someone)
medto 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
Derived Formsdoser, noun
Word Origin for dose
C15: from French, from Late Latin dosis, from Greek: a giving, from didonai to give
c.1600, from Middle French dose (15c.), from Late Latin dosis, from Greek dosis "a portion prescribed," literally "a giving," used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from stem of didonai "to give" (see date (n.1)). Slang meaning "venereal disease" is from 1914.
