'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