单词 | dose |
释义 | Word Frequency dose(dəʊs) noun 1. medicine a specific quantity of a therapeutic drug or agent taken at any one time or at specified intervals 2. informal something unpleasant to experience a dose of influenza 3. Also called: dosage the total energy of ionizing radiation absorbed by unit mass of material, esp of living tissue; usually measured in grays (SI unit) or rads 4. Also called: dosage a small amount of syrup added to wine, esp sparkling wine, when the sediment is removed and the bottle is corked 5. slang a sexually transmitted infection, esp gonorrhoea 6. like a dose of salts verb (transitive) 7. to administer a dose or doses to (someone) 8. medicine to give (a therapeutic drug or agent) in appropriate quantities 9. (often foll by up) to give (someone, esp oneself) drugs, medicine, etc, esp in large quantities 10. to add syrup to (wine) during bottling Derived forms doser (ˈdoser) noun Word origin C15: from French, from Late Latin dosis, from Greek: a giving, from didonai to give |
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