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 absorbed 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
- dos·er, 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
Seems as though sometimes I get an overdose of feeling, and an underdose of sense.
The Lost Wagon | James Arthur Kjelgaard
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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