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 Definitions of dose  [ʊs]  

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Definition of 'dose' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) dose
a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.

2.  dose
an intense and often disagreeable experience:
a dose of bad luck.

3.  dose
an amount of sugar solution added in the production of sparkling wine.

4.  dose
the amount of radiation to which something has been exposed or the amount that has been absorbed by a given mass of material, esp. living tissue.

5.  dose
Slang. a case of gonorrhea.

6. (v.t.) dose
to give a dose of medicine to.

7.  dose
to administer in doses.

8.  dose
to add sugar to (wine) during production.

9. (v.i.) dose
to take a dose of medicine.

Etymology:  (1590–1600; earlier dos < LL dosis < Gk dósis act of giving, dose =(di)dó(nai) to give +-sis-sis)

Definition of 'dose' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) dose, dosage
a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time

2. (noun) dose, dosage
the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time

3. (noun) venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD
a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

4. (verb) acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

5. (verb) dose
treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
"The ray dosed the paint"

6. (verb) drug, dose
administer a drug to
"They drugged the kidnapped tourist"


Definition of 'dose' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) dose
the permitted amount of medicine
a high dose of chemotherapy

2.  dose
a period during which you experience sth
Give your class a daily dose of music.


Definition of 'dose' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) dose
the quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time

2. (noun) dose
a sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive

3. (noun) dose
anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one

4. (noun) dose
to proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses

5. (noun) dose
to give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need

6. (noun) dose
to give anything nauseous to


Translation of 'dose' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the quantity of medicine etc to be taken at one time
It's time you had a dose of your medicine.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: dosis Arabic flag Arabic: جُرْعَةُ دَواء Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: доза
Brazilian flag Brazilian: dose Czech flag Czech: dávka German flag German: die Dosis
Danish flag Danish: dosis Greek flag Greek: δόση Spanish flag Spanish: dosis
Estonian flag Estonian: annus Farsi flag Farsi: میزان دارو؛ دوز Finnish flag Finnish: annos
French flag French: dose Hebrew flag Hebrew: מָנָה Hindi flag Hindi: खुराक
Croatian flag Croatian: količina, mjera lijeka Hungarian flag Hungarian: adag Indonesian flag Indonesian: dosis
Icelandic flag Icelandic: lyfjaskammtur Italian flag Italian: dose Japanese flag Japanese: 服用量
Korean flag Korean: 복용량 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: dozė, porcija Latvian flag Latvian: deva
Malay flag Malay: dos Dutch flag Dutch: dosis Norwegian flag Norwegian: dose, porsjon
Polish flag Polish: dawka Persian flag Persian: میزان دارو؛ دوز Pashto flag Pashto: ددرمل هغه اندازه چه په يو
Portuguese flag Portuguese: dose Romanian flag Romanian: doză Russian flag Russian: доза
Slovak flag Slovak: dávka Slovenian flag Slovenian: odmerek Serbian flag Serbian: doza
Swedish flag Swedish: dos Thai flag Thai: ปริมาณยาที่ให้ต่อครั้ง Turkish flag Turkish: doz
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: (藥的)劑量 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: доза Urdu flag Urdu: دوا کی ایک وقت میں دی جان
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: liều Chinese flag Chinese: (药的)剂量

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