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Meaning dose meaning

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dose

A dose is a measured amount of medicine that is taken at one time. Eat a dose of one spoonful of this cough medicine after every meal.

dose

a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time treat with an agent; add (an agent) to The ray dosed the paint (= drug) administer a drug to They drugged the kidnapped tourist (= acid) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide (= venereal disease) a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

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Topics dose topics

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  • What words refer to the amount of medicine that a sick person needs?

Conjugation dose conjugation

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dose · verb

Examples dose examples

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Simple sentences

This dose is enough to put an elephant to sleep.
A healthy dose of skepticism is vital when listening to a politician speak.
I knew I should've given you a stronger dose.
The dose makes the poison.
Double the dose.

Movie subtitles

A little dose of unexpected in the inexorable monotony of time.
Gentlemen, this was nothing, just a small demonstration. But as soon as a sufficient dose of ecrasite is there.
You've been making love to a double dose of cyanide.
Oh, I'm just about as popular as a dose of strychnine.
However, you have my word the dose was a normal one.
Better give him a good dose.
You take a dose of salts, and there you are.
If she doesn't sleep, repeat the dose in 2 hours.
A good dose of castor oil.
A drink of tea, is it, and a dose of poison.
Just two more dim faces. On the night of May 6, at a time we may be able to fix within the compass of a few minutes, some persons or person administered to Richard Paradine a murderous dose of poison.
Did you keep any of it? - No, sir. - We got the single dose from the vet.
It wasn't a big dose? No, sir.
Well, then just double the dose.
She's a double dose of cyanide.
She likes you. I'm as popular as a dose of strychnine.
However the dose was a normal one.
Miller, give him a dose of ipecac.
There's nothing like a good dose of being alone. to make a man appreciate his wife.
The most diabolically clever way of administering a lethal dose I've ever encountered.
This native dose would raise the dead.
Give the word and I'll dose those backstabbers with a broadside.
Let's see. Four-tenths each dose.
At 11.52 this morning, I took a dose of the formula, and in a few minutes I began to behave like a college boy, with 20l20 vision and no bursitis.
The dose I took has already worn off.
Probably the dose was wrong.
I'm going to try the experiment again, but with a larger dose.
The first dose is done.
PAINKILLER. a double dose, and right now.
What's the dose?
This'll be as good as a dose of salts to Pinkie.
Black Boy ran like a dose of salts.
Strikes me as though you both want a dose of salts.
Apparently its very difficult to poison oneself because its so easy to get the dose wrong.
Well, what's a stiff dose of jail going to accomplish?
Rest a lot, a large dose of peace and quiet. take your medication. and wait.
Such a dose you've given me!
She had done it after giving Rhoda that lethal dose of sleeping pills.

News and current affairs

BEIJING: China has now finished celebrating the 50th anniversary of Mao's revolution, but the hangover cure that so many people in the West have been urging upon the country -- a healthy dose of devaluation -- is unlikely to be swallowed.
Just as it is next to impossible to take a critically ill patient off life-support treatment, it is equally difficult to wean post-bubble economies from their now steady dose of liquidity injections and deficit spending.
For the moment, America's ability to borrow vast sums at low interest rates acts like a huge dose of steroids on the economy.
For someone using cannabis routinely, the dose carried in the body is higher than imagined.
It is also easy to underestimate the dose being taken, because there is a wide variety in the strength of cannabis.
What this pattern suggests is that the Party can rarely choke down more than the smallest dose of political reform, much less outright criticism before reacting in an almost autonomic fashion against it.
Yet when we treated the mice with a drug dose continuously adjusted to maintain a stable tumor volume, the animals, though not cured, survived for a prolonged period of time.
Unfortunately, Germany and the ECB oppose this option, owing to the prospect of a temporary dose of modestly higher inflation in the core relative to the periphery.
So Iraqis better prepare for an even more brutal dose.
It requires a heavy dose of institutional reform, which consumes financial, bureaucratic, and political resources.
Similarly, some argue that the country needs a mild dose of inflation, while Japan's central bank continues to resist the very idea that inflation could ameliorate any economic problem.
Nevertheless, mainstream economists believe that economic actors possess enough information to lend their theorizing a sufficient dose of reality.
Indeed, what is needed now is another dose of fiscal stimulus.
There are several reasons to favor a healthy dose of decentralization.
But then the tough conditionality of IMF bailouts and adjustment programs - Asia's own dose of austerity - kicked in.
The political and economic success of southern Europe's much-needed structural reforms requires the proper dose and timing of budgetary medicine and buoyant demand in the north.
And improved therapies mean that patients can be treated with drugs that work better (and that patients are more likely to receive the full dose needed).
To test this idea, we treated a human ovarian cancer, grown in mice, with conventional high-dose chemotherapy.
Moreover, smokers and PNV users control very precisely, on a puff-by-puff basis, the dose of nicotine they consume, virtually eliminating the risk of overdose.
In fact, a lethal dose of nicotine is a lot higher than the 30-60 milligrams that many scientific papers claim.
Most notably, the unifying character of Solidarity gave way to social divisions and, among many of Poland's people, a large dose of alienation from both politics and civic engagements.
In many such patients, doubling the dose of Plavix, and checking the platelet function with a point-of-care test to assure suppression, can override the lack of response.
For warfarin, a widely prescribed drug used to prevent blood clots, genotyping can guide the right dose and hasten the time it takes to get to steady state.
To fill a prescription for a drug with a known pharmacogenomic profile, a customer can get rapid genotyping to determine appropriate dose, drug, or predilection for serious side-effects.

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