dose
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Noun (4)doses
- a measured portion of medicine taken at any one timeSynonyms: dosageType of medicine, medicationKinds pill, lethal dose, draft, megadose, booster, hit
- the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one timeSynonyms: dosageType of indefinite quantity
- a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contactSynonyms: venereal diseaseVDvenereal infectionsocial diseaseCupid's itchCupid's diseaseVenus's cursesexually transmitted diseaseSTDType of contagious disease, contagionKinds lymphogranuloma venereum, syphilis, granuloma inguinale, chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamideSynonyms: acidback breakerbattery-aciddotElvisloony toonsLucy in the sky with diamondspanesupermanwindow paneZenType of lysergic acid diethylamide, LSD
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Translations
Noun measured portion of medicine
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. dose, Gr. δόσις a giving, a dose, fr. διδόναι to give; akin to L. dare to give. See Date point of time.
1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.
3. Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.
I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.— Washington Irving
I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down.— Robert South
4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed.
Origin: Cf. F. doser. See Dose, noun
1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need.
A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, “secundum artem.”— Robert South
3. To give anything nauseous to.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors