DOSE

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(noun) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide

dose, dosage

(noun) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time

dose, dosage

(noun) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time

drug, dose

(verb) administer a drug to; “They drugged the kidnapped tourist”

dose

(verb) treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; “The ray dosed the paint”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

dose (plural doses)

A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.

(figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.

A venereal infection.

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

(transitive) To administer a dose to.

To prescribe a dose.

Etymology 2

Noun

dose (plural doses)

Archaic form of doze.

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

Archaic form of doze.

Anagrams

• Does, SOED, deos, does, odes

Source: Wiktionary

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Dose, n. Etym: [F. dose, Gr. dare to give. See Date point of time.]

1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive.

3. Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.

Dose, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dosed; p. pr. & vb. n. dosing.] Etym: [Cf. F. doser. See Dose, n.]

1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.

2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." South

3. To give anything nauseous to.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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