dose

Meaning

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. (colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.

Verb

1. To administer a dose to.
2. To prescribe a dose.
3. To transmit a venereal disease.

Verb

Archaic form of doze.

Concepts

dose

dosage

drug

dosis

portion

medicine

acid

dot

window pane

instalment

Elvis

Zen

back breaker

battery-acid

loony toons

pane

superman

Cupid’s disease

Cupid’s itch

STD

VD

Venus’s curse

sexually transmitted disease

social disease

venereal disease

venereal infection

ration

installment

medication

pill

tablet

measure out

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

draught

administer

lull

puff

short rest

smoke

posology

medicate

treat

infusion

injection

cram

stuff

physic

potion

single dose

batching

absorbed dose

amount

magnitude

measure

quantitative

quantity

weigh

dish

draft

fix

helping

hit

jag

plate

triphosphoric acid

befuddle

besot

intoxicate

narcotise

nobble

stupefy

trance

small amount

LSD

battery acid

lysergic acid diethylamide

portions

prepare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dəʊs/

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.

Sentences

Increasing the dose of the drug may be able to restore the original response .