Meaning of dose | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
2. Archaic form of doze.
   alt-of, archaic
3. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
4. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
5. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time
6. Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
   dated, figuratively
7. Anything disagreeable that must be taken
8. A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
   figuratively
9. A good measure or lengthy experience of something
10. A venereal infection.
    dated
11. A venereal infection
12. A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
    Ireland, colloquial

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Examples

“Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.”

“Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.”

““I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas - a regular dose of the East - six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilise you.””

“The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down.”

“People who don't get their daily dose of light at the right time of day can end up with worse health.”

“Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.”

“It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.”

“There's a dose going round.”

“Just at the dawning of the day, I fell into a dose more like sleep than any I had during the whole night, in which I dreamed that I saw a river as clear as crystal […]”

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