dose: Meaning and Definition of

dose

1. a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
2. a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, esp. of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
3. an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
1. Also calledabsorbed dose.the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, esp. living tissue: measured in gray or rad.
2. Seeexposure dose.
5. a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.

1. to administer in or apportion for doses.
2. to give a dose of medicine to.
3. to add sugar to (champagne) during production.

1. to take a dose of medicine.