dose
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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.
Inflected forms:
form: doses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
pos: noun
examples: Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.
gloss: The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
pos: noun
examples: Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.
gloss: Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
pos: noun
tags: dated
figuratively
gloss: A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a healthy dose of skepticism.
“I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas - a regular dose of the East - six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilise you.”
The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down.
People who don't get their daily dose of light at the right time of day can end up with worse health.
gloss: A venereal infection.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.
It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.
gloss: A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
colloquial
examples: There's a dose going round.
gloss: To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "She thought herself broad awake, and I have dosed her with an opiate."
gloss: To prescribe a dose.
pos: verb
gloss: To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink.
gloss: To transmit a venereal disease to.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.
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:
lang: Bulgarian
word: до́за
roman: dóza
lang: Catalan
word: dosi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 剂量
roman: jìliàng
lang: Danish
word: dosis
lang: Danish
word: portion
lang: Esperanto
word: dozo
lang: Estonian
word: annus
lang: Finnish
word: annos
lang: German
word: Dosis
lang: Greek
word: δόση
roman: dósi
lang: Italian
word: dose
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: dose
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: dose
lang: Polish
word: dawka
lang: Polish
word: doza
lang: Polish
word: porcja
lang: Polish
word: miarka
lang: Portuguese
word: dose
lang: Russian
word: до́за
roman: dóza
lang: Russian
word: по́рция
roman: pórcija
lang: Slovak
word: dávka
lang: Spanish
word: dosis
lang: Tagalog
word: dosis