dose

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

dose [dose doses dosed dosing] noun, verb BrE [dəʊs] NAmE [doʊs]
noun
1. an amount of a medicine or a drug that is taken once, or regularly over a period of time
•a high/low/lethal dose
•Repeat the dose after 12 hours if necessary.
•Take a single dose at bedtime to help you sleep.
•I always take my daily dose of vitamin C.
2. (informal)an amount of sth
•A dose of flu kept me off work.
•Workers at the nuclear plant were exposed to high doses of radiation.
•I can cope with her in small doses (= for short amounts of time).
more at a taste/dose of your own medicine at ↑medicine

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from French, via late Latin from Greek dosis ‘gift’, from didonai ‘give’.

Example Bank:
•She needs to be given a daily dose of the medicine.
•The film also contains a hefty dose of comedy.
•The nurse will administer the correct dose.
•a lethal dose of radiation
•a strong dose of painkillers
•patients who receive high doses of this drug
•Repeat dose after 12 hours if necessary.
•a high/low dose
•to take/give sb a dose of medicine
Idiom: ↑like a dose of salts
 
verb ~ sb/yourself (up) (with sth)
to give sb/yourself a medicine or drug
•She dosed herself up with vitamin pills.
•He was heavily dosed with painkillers.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from French, via late Latin from Greek dosis ‘gift’, from didonai ‘give’.

Example Bank:
•She had been heavily dosed with painkillers.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  dosage, drug