Definitionen
1.NounA 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.NounThe quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
3.NounAnything disagreeable that must be taken.
4.NounA good measure or lengthy experience of something.
5.NounA venereal infection.
6.NounA cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever."There's a dose going round."
7.VerbTo administer a dose (of medicine) to.
8.VerbTo prescribe a dose.
9.VerbTo surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
10.VerbTo transmit a venereal disease to.
11.NounArchaic form of doze.
12.VerbArchaic form of doze.