- a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
- a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, especially of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
- an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
- Physics.
- the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, especially living tissue, measured in grays: although increasingly disfavored, in the U.S. an absorbed dose may still be measured in rads.
- exposure dose.
- a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.
- to administer in or apportion for doses.
- to give a dose of medicine to.
- to add sugar to (champagne) during production.
- to take a dose of medicine.
- a specific quantity of a therapeutic drug or agent taken at any one time or at specified intervals
- something unpleasant to experience
- the total energy of ionizing radiation absorbed by unit mass of material, esp of living tissue; usually measured in grays (SI unit) or rads
- a small amount of syrup added to wine, esp sparkling wine, when the sediment is removed and the bottle is corked
- a venereal infection, esp gonorrhoea
- very quickly indeed
- to administer a dose or doses to (someone)
- to give (a therapeutic drug or agent) in appropriate quantities
- to give (someone, esp oneself) drugs, medicine, etc, esp in large quantities
- to add syrup to (wine) during bottling
