'Dose' definitions:
Definition of 'dose'
(from WordNet)
noun
A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn: dose, dosage]
noun
The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: dose, dosage]
noun
A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact [syn: venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD]
noun
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen]
verb
Treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint"
verb
Administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: drug, dose]
Definition of 'Dose'
From: GCIDE
- Dose \Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose, fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See Date point of time.]
- 1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or as falls to one to receive. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind. [1913 Webster]
- I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. -- W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. -- South. [1913 Webster]
- 4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to which it is exposed. [PJC]
Definition of 'Dose'
From: GCIDE
- Dose \Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dosed; p. pr. & vb. n. dosing.] [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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions to, constantly and without need. [1913 Webster]
- A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." -- South [1913 Webster]
- 3. To give anything nauseous to. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dose'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acquired syphilis,
- administer,
- amount,
- anoint,
- apply,
- bag,
- balanitis gangrenosa,
- bang,
- batch,
- bestow,
- booster,
- booster dose,
- booster shot,
- budget,
- bunch,
- cerebral tabes,
- chancre,
- chancroid,
- chunk,
- clap,
- claps,
- climatic bubo,
- clutch,
- congenital syphilis,
- constitutional syphilis,
- count,
- deal,
- deck,
- dispense,
- dope,
- dosage,
- dose of clap,
- dose with,
- draft,
- dram,
- dropping,
- drug,
- drug packet,
- embrocate,
- enforce upon,
- fifth venereal disease,
- fix,
- force,
- force upon,
- French disease,
- general paresis,
- give,
- gob,
- gonorrhea,
- granuloma inguinale,
- granuloma venereum,
- great pox,
- group,
- hard chancre,
- heap,
- hit,
- hunk,
- injection,
- large amount,
- latent syphilis,
- lay on,
- locomotor ataxia,
- lot,
- mainlining,
- measure,
- medicate,
- mess,
- mete out to,
- morbus Gallicus,
- narcotic shot,
- nip,
- number,
- oil,
- overdose,
- pack,
- paralytic dementia,
- parcel,
- paresis,
- part,
- popping,
- portion,
- potion,
- pox,
- prescribe,
- prescribe for,
- pudendal ulcer,
- put on,
- put upon,
- quantity,
- ration,
- salve,
- shot,
- simple chancre,
- skin-popping,
- slug,
- small amount,
- social disease,
- soft chancre,
- Spanish pox,
- sum,
- syph,
- syphilis,
- syphilitic meningoencephalitis,
- tabes,
- tabes dorsales,
- tertiary syphilis,
- tropical bubo,
- VD,
- venereal disease