dose

About 27.50 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

   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.

2. noun The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
3. noun Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
4. noun A good measure or lengthy experience of something.

   a healthy dose of skepticism.

5. noun A venereal infection.
6. noun A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.

   There's a dose going round.

7. verb To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
8. verb To prescribe a dose.

Similar words

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Often followed by

of is and to for in rate was should

Word family

dosed doses dosing