Definitions for dose

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Spelling: [dohs]

IPA: /doʊs/

Dose is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in dose (deos).

Definitions for dose

noun

1. a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
2. a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, especially of something disagreeable:
3. an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
4. Physics. Also called absorbed dose. the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, especially living tissue: measured in gray or rad. exposure dose.
5. Slang. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.

verb (used with object)

1. to administer in or apportion for doses.
2. to give a dose of medicine to.
3. to add sugar to (champagne) during production.

verb (used without object)

1. to take a dose of medicine.

Origin of dose

1590-1600; earlier dos Late Latin dosis Greek dósis a giving

Examples for dose

She could not tell the exact time, because, in spite of her efforts, she had ended by falling into a dose.

On Wednesday, anchor Shepard Smith gave Fox News viewers a dose of rationality.

This cop that found me in a hallway, he says I must have been give a dose of Peter.

Stop Making Sense is the only current movie that's a dose of happiness from beginning to end.

The story gets out that Obama skipped his usual afternoon dose of caffeine heading toward the U.N. meeting.

It is not strange that when we have swallowed the dose it does little to effect a cure.

We are to be cured by an excess of the dose that has poisoned us.

If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.

Let us by all means give them instead a dose of positive philosophy.

The “gold standard” dose is 30 minutes of 10,000 lux light, one hour of 5,000 lux light or two hours of 2,500 lux light.