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Definition: Dose |
DoseNoun1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time. 2. The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time. Verb1. Treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint". 2. Administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Energy | The absorbed dose, given in rads (or the international system of units, grays), that represents the energy absorbed from the radiation in a gram of any material. Furthermore, the biological dose or dose equivalent, given in rem or sieverts, is a measure of the biological damage to living tissue from the radiation exposure. (references) |
| The amount of ionizing radiation energy absorbed per unit mass ofirradiated material at a specific location, such as a part of a human body. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | The amount of active principle applied, expressed generally as weight or volume per unit area, i. e. , as a dosage(rate). Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | The amount of a substance to which a person is exposed over some time period. Dose is a measurement of exposure. Dose is often expressed as milligram (amount) per kilogram (a measure of body weight) per day (a measure of time) when people eat or drink contaminated water, food, or soil. In general, the greater the dose, the greater the likelihood of an effect. An "exposure dose" is how much of a substance is encountered in the environment. An "absorbed dose" is the amount of a substance that actually got into the body through the eyes, skin, stomach, intestines, or lungs. (references) |
| The radiation dose is the amount of energy from radiation that is actually absorbed by the body. This is not the same as measurements of the amount of radiation in the environment. (references) | |
Medicine | The sum of the doses absorbed in the same region for a series of irradiations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A special charge used in a blast furnace, designed to cure furnace troubles b. The amount of ionizing radiation energy absorbed per unit mass of irradiated material at a specific location, such as a part of the humanbody. Measured in reps, rems, and rads. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | A general term denoting the quantity of radiation or energy absorbed. For special purposes, it must be appropriately qualified. Source: European Union. (references) |
| At a given point in space, the number of particles or photons incident during a given time interval on a small sphere, centred at that point, divided by the cross-sectional area of that sphere. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Physics | The quotient d epsilon/dm, where d epsilon is the energy imparted to matter by ionising radiation in a suitably small element of volume of mass dm. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A term used in the past to represent the absorption of energy by matter from radiation or corpuscular emission. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | Radiation:the amount of ionizing radioactivity absorbed by the person or community exposed; Toxicology:the amount of toxic substance received by a person internally or externally; Pharmacology:the prescribed strength and amount administered to a patient. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
1. n An amount of medication to be taken at one time.
2. n An amount of radiation received.
3. v To give a dose of medicine to somebody, or to measure an amount for this.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dose."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DOSE | English | Distributed Office Support Executive | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DoseSynonyms: dosage (n), drug (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Apportionment | Dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte. |
Part | Noun: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel. |
Quantity | Armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful, capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle. |
Remedy | Verb: apply a remedy; Noun: doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to, attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent; relieve; palliate; restore; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let blood; manicure. |
Medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion, drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Homer, whatever they've got you on, cut the dose! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I think that you'll find a little S&M will be necessary to trigger off a good healthy dose of hallucinations (Videodrome; writing credit: David Cronenberg) I'm about as popular as a dose of strychnine (The Lady Vanishes; writing credit: Ethel Lina White; Sidney Gilliat) Nope! I just gave him a dose of his own bad music (Static Shock; writing credit: Maksim Stishov) Once the phaztillon generator is repaired, we'll dose ourselves and hope your living ship doesn't interfere with the non-thermal dimensional forces (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) | |
Lyrics | We're giving love in a family dose ("We Are Family"; performing artist: Sister Sledge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Bonne dose (1984) | |
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 | Shown are the hands of a scientist, under a sterile hood, preparing the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) vaccinia used to try to prevent cancer. The scientist is diluting the concentrated vaccinnia virus into a dose level appropriate for administration to a patient. This vaccinnia marks any cancer cells expressing the CEA. Credit: John Keith (photographer). |  | Dr. J. Michael Hamilton preparing the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) vaccinia used to try to prevent cancer. He is diluting the concentrated vaccinnia virus into a dose level appropriate for administration to a patient. This vaccinnia marks any caner cells expressing the CEA. Credit: John Keith (photographer). |
 | Crowd waiting for oral polio vaccine in 1962. Today CDC now recommends that we give only the injectable vaccine because of the very small chance that the oral dose can lead to a polio infection. Credit: CDC. |  | [A Navajo woman is measuring out a dose of medicine into a spoon] / Allan Brands photograph. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The Quack's Main(e) Dose - That Will Cure Or Kill. : N.B. - It was an overdose. / Th[omas] Nast. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Another dose. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
B.c. Forbes | A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Take a dose a pain killer |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Some complications may be dose dependent. (references) | |
Do not exceed the dose prescribed by your doctor. (references) | ||
The second dose should be given 2 weeks after the first. (references) | ||
Business | Guangdong dose not receive many foreign loans in the component industry except a $15 to 20 million from the Spanish government in the mid 1990s. Now Guangdong plans to fund its automotive parts and components projects through a number of sources such as such as fees, private sector investments, multilateral lending, and government allotment. (references) | |
Trade | Nicaragua | Products must be packaged for retail distribution and the dose of the medicine listed. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the- grave and four parts clarified Satan. Dose, a headful all the time. Brandy is said by Dr. Johnson to be the drink of heroes. Only a hero will venture to drink it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dose" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.14% of the time. "Dose" is used about 1,502 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.14% | 1,444 | 5,593 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.6% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.4% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Determiner (general) | 0.6% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.2% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.07% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,502 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "dose" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Dose | Last name | 170 | 52,085 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "dose": absorbed dose ♦ absorbed dose index ♦ absorbed dose rate ♦ accumulated dose ♦ acute dose ♦ acute radiation dose ♦ biologically equivalent single dose ♦ booster dose ♦ chemical dose ♦ chronic radiation dose ♦ collective dose ♦ committed dose ♦ committed dose equivalent(H50) ♦ critical dose ♦ cumulative absorbed dose ♦ cumulative dose ♦ deep dose equivalent index at a point ♦ depth absorbed dose ♦ depth dose ♦ dose equivalent ♦ dose fractionation ♦ dose limits ♦ dose meter ♦ dose of clap ♦ dose oneself ♦ dose oneself with pills ♦ dose out ♦ dose protraction ♦ dose rate ♦ dose rate contour line ♦ dose response ♦ dose with drug ♦ entrance surface dose ♦ equivalent single dose ♦ erythema dose ♦ exposure dose ♦ genetic dose ♦ genetically significant dose ♦ give smb. a dose of his own medicine ♦ gonadal dose ♦ individual dose ♦ integral absorbed dose ♦ lethal dose ♦ lethal dose 50 ♦ lethal dose of poison ♦ loading dose ♦ Lp 10 dose ♦ lung dose ♦ maximum absorbed dose ♦ maximum permissible dose ♦ Maximum Tolerated Dose ♦ mean lethal dose ♦ median incapacitating dose ♦ median lethal dose ♦ need smth. like a dose of salts ♦ organ dose ♦ patient dose ♦ peak absorbed dose ♦ personal dose ♦ radiation dose ♦ radiation dose rate ♦ recall dose ♦ retained dose ♦ total dose ♦ what dose it mean? ♦ whole body dose. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "dose": dose-boarded, dose-cropped, dose-dependent, dose-dependently, dose-effect, dose-limiting, dose-rate, dose-related, Dose-Response, dose-responses. | |
Ending with "dose": full-dose, low-dose. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dose"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | dozoj, dozë ilaçi (drench), dozë (dosage, monitoring), porcion (allowance, batch, dollop, helping, portion, ration), jap barna me dozë të caktuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | تجرع الدواء, عالج (address, cover, cure, deal, debug, doctor, fix, handle, heal, manage, medicine, pack, process, rectify, remedy, treat), جزأ الدواء لجرعات, جرعة دواء (drop, potion), جرعة (dosage, drench, drink, gulp, measure, mouthful, nip, potion, pull, swallow), جرع (quaff). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | тъпча с лекарства, прибавям нещо, подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, spice, wangle), подправка за питие, доза (deal, dosage, potion), дозирам. (various references) | |
Catalan | dosi. (various references) | |
Chinese | 药量 (Dosed, dosing), 劑 , 一服 . (various references) | |
Czech | dávkovat, dávka (batch, burst, dosage, measure, potion, ration, tax), záchvat (attack, bout, burst, conniption, fit, gust, onrush, outbreak, seizure, spasm), tripl (clap), kapavka (gonorrhea, gonorrhoea). (various references) | |
Danish | dosis (application rate). (various references) | |
Dutch | dosis (absorbed dose, application rate). (various references) | |
Esperanto | dozo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | heiliverður. (various references) | |
Farsi | مقداردوا, خوراک دوایاشربت , دوادادن (Physic). (various references) | |
Finnish | annos (helping, portion, ration, serving). (various references) | |
French | dose (dosage), doser. (various references) | |
German | dosis (application rate, dose rate), dosieren (batching, dispense, hand out, measure out, meter, to dose, to meter). (various references) | |
Greek | δόση (dosage, installment, instalment, potion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ " (portion, ration, share). (various references) | |
Hungarian | adag (helping, level of ration, portion, potion, ration, serving, stint), dózis. (various references) | |
Indonesian | dosis, takaran obat. (various references) | |
Italian | dose (quantity). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 調薬 , 線量 , "量 , 投与量 (dosage), 剤 (drug, medicine), 一回分 (installment). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ざい (drug, fortune, medicine, riches), せ"りょう (1000 ryou, capture, dyes, have a room to oneself, member of parliament, occupation, possession), いっかいぶ" (installment), ようりょう (capacity, electrical capacitance, essentials, gist, outline, point), とうよりょう (dosage), ちょうやく (bound, jump, leap, skip). (various references) | |
Korean | 복용량. (various references) | |
Manx | towse (calibre, capacity, divine law, gauge, mark off, size, size up, sum up, summing up, time, tit of gold, value, weigh, weigh out; rating), jough lheeys (draught of medicine), dourin (disease, disease congenital, malady), cur jough lheeys da. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oseday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | dose (admixture, dosage, drench, drop, helping, potion, share). (various references) | |
Romanian | dozã (admixture, draught, soundbox), doza (distribute), puţin (a bit, a little, exiguous, little, meager, meagre, mouthful, rather, reduced, shallow, short, slightly, small, some, something, somewhat), adãuga în vin. (various references) | |
Russian | доза (dosage, potion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dozirati, doza (bowl, dosage). (various references) | |
Spanish | dosis (admixture, dosage, draught, fix, potion, shot). (various references) | |
Swedish | dos (dosage, draft, draught, shot), sats (batch, clause, feed, jism, movement, proposition, rate, run, sentence, set, take off, theorem, thesis, type), dosis. (various references) | |
Thai | ให้ยา (drug), เติมส่วนผสม, ปริมา"ยาที่ให้ต่อครั้ง. (various references) | |
Turkish | dozunu ayarlamak, doz (charge, dosage), kamışı kırma (dose of clap), cinsel hastalık kapma (dose of clap), bir parça (a bit, a bit of a, a little, a piece of, dollop, dosage, element, faint, ounce, piece, some, something of, somewhat, soupcon), belli ölçüde ilaç vermek, şaraba alkol katmak. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | частка (allotment, ante, contingent, crumb, deal, detail, divvy, draught, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quantity, quota, quotient, shred, slice), лікувати великими дозами ліків, дозувати (batch, meter, proportion), доза (dosage), додавати інгреді"нти. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | liều thuốc, liều lượng. (various references) | |
Welsh | dogn (allowance, portion, share). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | dosis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dose": dosed, doser, dosers, doses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "dose": aldose, frondose, isodose, megadose, nodose, overdose, vadose. (additional references) | |
Words containing "dose": acidoses, aldoses, amyloidoses, apodoses, calvadoses, extradoses, intradoses, lordoses, megadoses, overdosed, overdoses, paradoses, reredoses, sarcoidoses, strongyloidoses. (additional references) | |
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"Dose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dasa, Dase, Dassu, dcoes, Ddsi, deese, deossum, Desa, dese, Desse, deste, deze, Dezsoe, dhsi, diese, diose, dise, disen, disse, Djoser, Dmsa, dmsu, doae, doase, dobe, doce, doci, docu, dode, doesn, dofe, d'oie, dois, Doise, D'oise, doje, dolse, donse, Donsey, dooe, doos, Doosan, doose, dooze, dosa, dosaaf, dosea, Dosen, doser, doset, dosey, doshe, dosi, Dosia, dosie, dosil, dosk, Doskey, dosn, Dossa, dosset, Dossi, Dosso, dossy, doste, dosy, dowe, dowex, doxe, Doxsie, D'oysel, doz, doza, dozem, dozi, dozl, Dozo, Droese, drosey, Droste, droze, dsa, dso, dsu, dugse, dulse, durse, dusa, duse, dusen, dusey, dusi, Dutse, duzi, dyse, eose, kose, Mdpssee, Qdos, vose, xdos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dose" (pronounced dō"s) |
| 2 | -ō" s | Adios, arkose, bowse, close, diagnose, engross, grandiose, gross, Grosz, misdiagnose, morose, most. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: does, odes. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-o-s" | |
-1 letter: doe, dos, eds, ode, ods, oes, ose, sod. | |
-2 letters: de, do, ed, es, od, oe, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-o-s" | |
+1 letter: bodes, codes, coeds, decos, demos, doers, doest, doges, doles, domes, dopes, dosed, doser, doses, dotes, douse, doves, dowse, dozes, eidos, feods, hosed, lodes, modes, nodes, nosed, posed, redos, resod, rosed, shoed, soled, sonde, sowed, spode. | |
+2 letters: abodes, adobes, adores, aldose, anodes, bodies, bossed, boused, bowsed, closed, codecs, codens, coders, coshed, cosied, costed, credos, dadoes, dagoes, decors, decoys, defogs, dekkos, demobs, demons, depose, depots, desorb, desoxy, despot, devons, dholes, didoes, diodes, dobies, dodges, dodoes, dogeys, dogies, donees, donsie, dopers, dories, dorsel, dorser, dosage, dosers, dossed, dossel, dosser, dosses, doters, doused, douser, douses, dovens, dowels, dowers, dowsed, dowser, dowses, doxies, doyens, dozens, dozers, drones, droves, drowse, eddoes, endows, ephods, epodes, erodes, escudo, exodos, exodus, geodes, geoids, godets, goosed, hoised, hordes, horsed, hosted, housed, iodise, joshed, kendos, lodens, lodges, loosed, loused, models, modems, modest, mondes, mopeds, moshed, mossed, moused, nodose, noised, noosed, noshed, oddest, odeons, odeums, odyles, oldest, oldies, onside, oodles, orders, oreads, ousted, oxides, pedros, poised, posted, prosed, pseudo, redoes, redons, reshod, resods, resold, rodeos, roosed, roused, sarode, scoped, scored, scowed, seadog, second, seldom, shooed, shored, shoved, showed, siloed, sloped, slowed, smoked, snored, snowed, soaked, soaped, soared, sobbed, socked, sodded, sodden, sogged, soiled, solder, soloed, solved, sonder, sondes, sooted, sopped, sorbed, sorned, sorted, sotted, souled, souped, soured, soused, speedo, spodes, spoked, spored, stodge, stoked, stoled, stoned, stoped, stored, stowed, strode, todies, tossed, toused, undoes, uredos, vadose, videos, wodges, yodels, yodles. | |
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