DOSE
Dictionary entry overview: What does dose mean?
• DOSE (noun)
The noun DOSE has 4 senses:
1. 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
3. a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
4. street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Familiarity information: DOSE used as a noun is uncommon.
• DOSE (verb)
The verb DOSE has 2 senses:
1. treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
2. administer a drug to
Familiarity information: DOSE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DOSE (noun)
Meaning:
A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("dose" is a kind of...):
medicament; medication; medicinal drug; medicine ((medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dose"):
booster; booster dose; booster shot; recall dose (an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective)
draft; draught (a dose of liquid medicine)
hit (a dose of a narcotic drug)
lethal dose (the size dose that will cause death)
lozenge; pill; tab; tablet (a dose of medicine in the form of a small pellet)
Meaning:
The quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
dosage; dose
Hypernyms ("dose" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Meaning:
A communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Venus's curse; venereal infection; venereal disease; VD; social disease; sexually transmitted disease; Cupid's itch; Cupid's disease; dose
Hypernyms ("dose" is a kind of...):
contagion; contagious disease (any disease easily transmitted by contact)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dose"):
chlamydia (a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria of the genus Chlamydia)
LGV; lymphogranuloma venereum; lymphopathia venereum (infectious disease caused by a species of chlamydia bacterium; transmitted by sexual contact; characterized by genital lesions and swelling of lymph nodes in the groin)
pox; syph; syphilis (a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta))
granuloma inguinale; granuloma venereum (a venereal disease caused by a bacterium of the genus Calymmatobacterium; characterized by a pimply rash of the skin in the genital and groin region)
clap; gonorrhea; gonorrhoea (a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra)
genital herpes; herpes genitalis (an infection caused by herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) that is usually transmitted by sexual contact; marked by recurrent attacks of painful eruptions on the skin and mucous membranes of the genital area)
Meaning:
Street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
loony toons; back breaker; battery-acid; window pane; Elvis; Lucy in the sky with diamonds; superman; acid; pane; Zen; dot; dose
Hypernyms ("dose" is a kind of...):
LSD; lysergic acid diethylamide (a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid)
• DOSE (verb)
Meaning:
Treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The ray dosed the paint
Hypernyms (to "dose" is one way to...):
process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Administer a drug to
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Synonyms:
drug; dose
Context example:
They drugged the kidnapped tourist
Hypernyms (to "dose" is one way to...):
medicate; medicine (treat medicinally, treat with medicine)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "dose"):
anaesthetise; anaesthetize; anesthetise; anesthetize; put out; put to sleep; put under (make unconscious by means of anesthetic drugs)
dope; dope up (give a narcotic to)
o.d.; overdose (dose too heavily)
narcotise; narcotize (administer narcotics to)
poison (administer poison to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
