dose
A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
Noun 4 meanings
A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
“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.”
The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
“a healthy dose of skepticism.”
Verb 4 meanings
To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
To prescribe a dose.
To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
To transmit a venereal disease to.
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”). Mostly displaced English drench. Doublet of doos.
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DOSE at a glance
DOSE has 4 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (D 2 + O 1 + S 1 + E 1) and 5 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,034 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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