doses

Noun

dose (plural doses)

1. 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. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
   • Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and...2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884
3. (dated, figuratively) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.

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4. (figuratively) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
   • a healthy dose of skepticism.
5. (dated) A venereal infection.
   • Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.1972, Shel Silverstein, “Don't Give A Dose to the One You Love Most”
6. (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
   • There's a dose going round.

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