Found 3 items, similar to Dose.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: dose
dosis, takaran obat
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dose
dose
v 1: treat with an agent; add (an agent) to;
“The ray dosed the
paint”
2: administer a drug to;
“They drugged the kidnapped tourist”
[syn:
drug]
dose
n 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 [syn:
dosage]
3: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn:
acid,
back breaker
,
battery-acid,
dot,
Elvis,
loony toons,
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
,
pane,
superman,
window pane
,
Zen]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dose
Dose
\Dose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Dosed; p. pr. & vb. n.
dosing.] [Cf. F. doser. See
Dose, n.]
1. To proportion properly (a medicine), with reference to the
patient or the disease; to form into suitable doses.
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2. To give doses to; to medicine or physic to; to give
potions to, constantly and without need.
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A self-opinioned physician, worse than his
distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him,
“secundum artem.” -- South
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3. To give anything nauseous to.
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Dose
\Dose\ (d[=o]s), n. [F. dose, Gr. do`sis a giving, a dose,
fr. dido`nai to give; akin to L. dare to give. See
Date
point of time.]
1. The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken,
at one time.
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2. A sufficient quantity; a portion; as much as one can take,
or as falls to one to receive.
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3. Anything unpleasant that one is obliged to take; a
disagreeable portion thrust upon one; also used
figuratively, as to give someone a dose of his own
medicine, i. e. to retaliate in kind.
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I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not
by violent doses. -- W. Irving.
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I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give
him, he shall readily take it down. -- South.
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4. a quantity of radiation which an object absorbs, or to
which it is exposed.
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