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dose
[ dohs ]
noun
- a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, especially of something disagreeable:
Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
- an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
- Physics.
- Also called absorbed dose. the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, especially living tissue, measured in grays: although increasingly disfavored, in the U.S. an absorbed dose may still be measured in rads.
- Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.
verb (used with object)
- to administer in or apportion for doses.
- to give a dose of medicine to.
- to add sugar to (champagne) during production.
verb (used without object)
- to take a dose of medicine.
dose
/ »åəʊ²õ /
noun
- med a specific quantity of a therapeutic drug or agent taken at any one time or at specified intervals
- informal.something unpleasant to experience
a dose of influenza
- Also calleddosage the total energy of ionizing radiation absorbed by unit mass of material, esp of living tissue; usually measured in grays (SI unit) or rads
- Also calleddosage a small amount of syrup added to wine, esp sparkling wine, when the sediment is removed and the bottle is corked
- slang.a venereal infection, esp gonorrhoea
- like a dose of saltsvery quickly indeed
verb
- to administer a dose or doses to (someone)
- med to give (a therapeutic drug or agent) in appropriate quantities
- often foll by up to give (someone, esp oneself) drugs, medicine, etc, esp in large quantities
- to add syrup to (wine) during bottling
Derived Forms
- ˈ»å´Ç²õ±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- »å´Ç²õ·±ð°ù noun
- ²õ³Ü·±è±ð°ù·»å´Ç²õ±ð noun
- ³Ü²Ô·»å±ð°ù·»å´Ç²õ±ð noun
- ³Ü²Ô·»å±ð°ù·»å´Ç²õ±ð verb (used with object) underdosed underdosing
- well-dosed adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dose1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of dose1
Example Sentences
April plans to be in a "big comfy bed" for what she calls a "celebratory" moment when a medical professional will inject a lethal dose into her bloodstream.
He was sold after horror mogul Jason Blum, who is an executive producer, sent him the pilot script flavored with generous doses of gore, Southern-fried dark humor and foul language.
The cost per single dose varies but is typically between £75 and £99.
Then someone read my tweet and reached out - she had procured three vials for her father but he died before he could be given the doses.
If Tuchel thought he could quickly blow away the cobwebs he believed had gathered on Southgate's England, then his first two games in charge will have been a sobering dose of reality.
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