dose

[dohs]

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noun

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.
exposure dose.

Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.

verb (used with object), dosed, dos·ing.

to administer in or apportion for doses.

to give a dose of medicine to.

to add sugar to (champagne) during production.

verb (used without object), dosed, dos·ing.

to take a dose of medicine.

Origin of dose

1590–1600; earlier dos < Late Latin dosis < Greek dósis a giving

Related formsdos·er, nounsu·per·dose, nounun·der·dose, nounun·der·dose, verb (used with object), un·der·dosed, un·der·dos·ing.well-dosed, adjective

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Related Words for dosing

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Historical Examples of dosing

I've just been dosing on sage tea and honey, and it has about broke up my cough.
A Little Girl in Old Boston
Amanda Millie Douglas
Mantelish p. 344 brags about a new solvent he's been dosing its roots with.
Legacy
James H Schmitz
They're dosing him somehow with some diabolical Javanese thing, those two.
Cleek, the Master Detective
Thomas W. Hanshew
Have you been dosing yourself pretty regularly with these things?
Cum Grano Salis
Gordon Randall Garrett
And to obtaining this money might be traced the motive for dosing Lady Jenkins.
Johnny Ludlow, Third Series
Mrs. Henry Wood

British Dictionary definitions for dosing

dose

noun

med a specific quantity of a therapeutic drug or agent taken at any one time or at specified intervals

informal something unpleasant to experiencea 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

verb (tr)

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

Derived Formsdoser, noun

Word Origin for dose

C15: from French, from Late Latin dosis, from Greek: a giving, from didonai to give

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Word Origin and History for dosing

dose

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.

dose

1650s, from dose (n.). Related: Dosed; dosing.

dosing in Medicine

dose

[dōs]

n.

A specified quantity of a therapeutic agent, such as a drug, prescribed to be taken at one time or at stated intervals.

The amount of radiation administered as therapy to a given site.

v.

To give or prescribe something, such as medicine, in specified amounts.

To give someone a dose, as of medicine.