English Explanatory Dictionary

dose

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
  2. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
  3. Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
  4. A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
  5. A venereal infection.
  6. A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
verb
  1. To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
  2. To prescribe a dose.
  3. To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
  4. To transmit a venereal disease to.
noun
  1. Archaic form of doze.
verb
  1. Archaic form of doze.

Pronunciation

/ˈdəʊ̯s/ /ˈdɵ̞ʊ̯s/ /ˈdoʊ̯s/ /ˈdɔʊ̯s/ en-us-dose.ogg /ˈdəʉ̯s/ /ˈdɐʉ̯s/

Word forms

dose doses dosing dosed

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Doublet of doos.

Synonyms

fill

Related words

dosage

Derived words

absorbed dose banana equivalent dose black dose booster dose committed dose dose dumping dose equivalent dosemeter dose of one's own medicine dose rate dosology effective dose elephant dose equivalent dose flight-time equivalent dose funny as a dose of the clap heroic dose interdose isodose lethal dose like a dose of salts low-dose CT scanning macrodose megadose metered-dose inhaler multidose paleodose postdose predose radiation dose semilethal dose the dose makes the poison under-dose underdose zero-dose doseable microdose

Translations

Bulgarian: до́за Catalan: dosi Chinese Mandarin: 剂量 Danish: dosis Danish: portion Esperanto: dozo Estonian: annus Finnish: annos German: Dosis Greek: δόση Italian: dose Norwegian Bokmål: dose Norwegian Nynorsk: dose Polish: dawka Polish: doza Polish: porcja Polish: miarka Portuguese: dose Russian: до́за Russian: по́рция Slovak: dávka Spanish: dosis Tagalog: dosis
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