A dose is the amount of medicine you're supposed to take. A bottle of aspirin has the recommended dose printed on its side.
The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
Noun
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Noun
a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
Noun
the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
Verb
administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
Verb
treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint"
n.
The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at
one time.
n.
A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take, or
as falls to one to receive.
n.
Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable
portion thrust upon one.
n.
To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the
patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
n.
To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give potions
to, constantly and without need.
n.
To give anything nauseous to.
Dose
I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses.
I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down.
Dose
A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem."3.
The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.
To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
Usage Examples
The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.
I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.
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Other Usage ExamplesMost medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.
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