dose
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
dose (plural doses)
- A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
- The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
- (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
- A venereal infection.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 382:
- It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 382:
dose (doses, present participle dosing; past and past participle dosed)
- (transitive) To administer a dose to.
- To prescribe a dose.
- German: dosieren
- Portuguese: dosar
- German: dosieren
- Portuguese: dosar
dose (plural doses)
- Archaic form of doze#English|doze.
- 1839, Benjamin Abbott, Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rev. Benjamin Abbott
- Just at the dawning of the day, I fell into a dose more like sleep than any I had during the whole night, in which I dreamed that I saw a river as clear as crystal […]
- 1839, Benjamin Abbott, Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rev. Benjamin Abbott
dose (doses, present participle dosing; past and past participle dosed)
- Archaic form of doze#English|doze.
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