dose
IPA: dˈoʊs
noun
- A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
- The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
- (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
- (figurative, dated) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
- A venereal infection.
- Archaic form of doze. [A light, short sleep or nap.]
verb
- (transitive) To administer a dose to.
- To prescribe a dose.
- To transmit a venereal disease.
- Archaic form of doze. [(intransitive) To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze.]
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Examples of "dose" in Sentences
- The cost varies depending on the dose.
- The deliverable dose is ten times higher.
- In full dose, it is narcotic and sedative.
- It is referring to the dose of gunpowder in the box.
- Now there is the issue of the safe and effective dose.
- At high doses, saccharin causes a precipitate in rats.
- In animals the toxic dose and the lethal dose are nearly the same.
- There is a healthy comradeship and competitiveness in equal doses.
- Reduce both the dose of levomepromazine and the dose of the other drug.
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