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dose
[ dohs ]
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 grays: although increasingly disfavored, in the U.S. an absorbed dose may still be measured in rads.
- Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.
verb (used with object)
- 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)
- to take a dose of medicine.
dose
/ əʊ /
noun
- 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 calleddosage 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 calleddosage 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 saltsvery quickly indeed
verb
- 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 Forms
- ˈDz, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- Dz· noun
- ··Dz noun
- ܲ··Dz noun
- ܲ··Dz verb (used with object) underdosed underdosing
- well-dosed adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dose1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of dose1
Example Sentences
All told, Knappenberger’s approach applies much-needed but heretofore scarcely presented doses of cynicism to America’s motivations for prosecuting and escalating this war.
Theatre audiences will get a double dose of Paul Mescal in 2027, after the Irish actor signed up for two productions at the National Theatre.
Between Good Friday and Easter Sunday 2023, he made sure Mr and Mrs Baxter consumed a fatal dose of fentanyl disguised in a "liver cleanse" smoothie.
At the same time, the middle managers, the men in the gray flannel suits, on occasion they got doses of rhetoric that the Cultural Revolution would've been proud of.
He also suggested Gordon should "double the dose" and said he also wanted Mr Simpson's partner to be blinded in the same attack.
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