dose

(Английский)

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. (dated, figuratively) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
4. (figuratively) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
5. (dated) A venereal infection.
6. (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.

Verb

1. (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
2. To prescribe a dose.
3. (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
4. (dated, transitive) To transmit a venereal disease to.

Verb

Archaic form of doze.

Произносится как (IPA)

/dəʊs/

Этимология (Английский)

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.

Синонимы

dosage

drug

💊

dosis

portion

medicine

💊

window pane

dot

acid

Cupid’s itch

Elvis

VD

Zen

social disease

ration

sexually transmitted disease

instalment

STD

pane

superman

venereal disease

Cupid’s disease

Venus’s curse

back breaker

battery-acid

loony toons

venereal infection

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

installment

medication

administer

draught

pill

💊

measure out

tablet

trance

treat

weigh

small amount

single dose

short rest

LSD

narcotise

triphosphoric acid

posology

amount

batching

battery acid

befuddle

besot

cram

Переводы

dose

dosis

dose

Dosis

dose

δόση

dawka

dosi

dosis

doz

doza

dosare

dosar

dozować

dosieren

Предложения

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

Увеличение дозы препарата может быть в состоянии восстановить первоначальный ответ.