dose

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A 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. isim The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
3. isim Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
4. isim A good measure or lengthy experience of something.

   “a healthy dose of skepticism.”

5. isim A venereal infection.

   “Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.”

6. isim A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.

   “There's a dose going round.”

7. fiil To administer a dose (of medicine) to.

   “"She thought herself broad awake, and I have dosed her with an opiate."”

8. fiil To prescribe a dose.
9. fiil To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.

   “The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink.”

10. fiil To transmit a venereal disease to.

    “Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.”

11. isim Archaic form of doze.

    “Just at the dawning of the day, I fell into a dose more like sleep than any I had during the whole night, in which I dreamed that I saw a river as clear as crystal […]”

12. fiil Archaic form of doze.

    “It was to me a marvellous experience; to be here, propped up with pillows in a dimly-lighted room, the night-nurse idly dosing by the fire; the sound of the everlasting wind in my ears, howling outside […]”