dose
Noun · VerbWordNet 3.0
Noun (4)
- a measured portion of medicine taken at any one timeSynonyms: dosage
- the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one timeSynonyms: dosage
- a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contactSynonyms: venereal diseaseVDvenereal infectionsocial diseaseCupid's itchCupid's diseaseVenus's cursesexually transmitted diseaseSTD
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamideSynonyms: acidback breakerbattery-aciddotElvisloony toonsLucy in the sky with diamondspanesupermanwindow paneZen
Verb (2)
- treat with an agent; add (an agent) to“The ray dosed the paint”
- administer a drug to“They drugged the kidnapped tourist”Synonyms: drug
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses. [1913 Webster]
2.To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. [1913 Webster]
A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem."— South[1913 Webster]
3.To give anything nauseous to. [1913 Webster]
1.The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. [1913 Webster]
2.A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.— W. Irving.[1913 Webster]
I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down.— South.[1913 Webster]
4.a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed. [PJC]