1A quantity of a medicine or drug taken or recommended to be taken at a particular time.

1. 1.1 An amount of ionizing radiation received or absorbed at one time or over a specified period.
   a dose of radiation exceeding safety limits

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   • The sites were arranged in column pairs receiving the same irradiation doses.
   • Thus, clustered damages are presumably produced by low doses of ionizing radiation such as those to which human populations may be exposed.
   • It can be totally dehydrated and can take huge doses of ionizing radiation in the dehydrated state.
   • They blame her behavior on the high doses of radiation she received late last year.
   • One of them, a boy who is now 14 years old, received large doses of radiation to his brain when he was 4.
   • A radiation therapy device malfunctioned, delivering lethal radiation doses at several medical facilities.
   • Other investigators have shown that reducing the irradiation light dose rate could significantly improve tumor response.
   • Some had received large doses of densely ionizing radiation while processing plutonium.
   • Thus hospital workers constitute the group most consistently exposed to low doses of ionizing radiation.
   • They would receive a much lower dose of radioactivity than those walking down the street near the explosion.
   • He has no memory of the terrible events that lie buried in his childhood - until he absorbs a massive dose of gamma rays and miraculously lives to tell the tale.
   • Cultures were immediately irradiated with a UV dose of 27 J / m.
   • Perhaps most importantly, the findings from our study should be compared with doses of ionizing radiation.
   • However, for simulating sunlight conditions we used lower UVB doses.
   • The principle long-term effect of exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation is now considered to be the induction of cancer.
   • Irradiation exposes food to a dose of ionizing radiation to kill bacteria.
   • In the scramble to recover the spilt heavy water, at least seven technicians received heavy doses of radiation and they were taken off duties involving radioactive materials.
   • The conscripts were only permitted to be on site for two weeks, during which they might absorb a lifetime dose of radiation.
   • These two factors will influence the spectral dose of UV radiation received by covered biota.
   • The therapy consists of delivering a single high dose of radiation directly to involved tumor sites during surgery.
2. 1.2informal A venereal infection.
3. 1.3informal A quantity of something regarded as analogous to medicine in being necessary but unpleasant.
   I wanted to give you a dose of the hell you put me through

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   • He states that people suffering from low self-esteem can unconsciously drive their partner away, in hopes that they will receive a dose of reassurance.
   • He is there to assist those of us who think we know how to golf, but who receive a dose of reality on the course.
   • They evoked the necessary concern and dose of reality that print simply could not.
   • And his response, of course, contained the requisite doses of hard-man menace necessary to maintain his image as an intimidator.
   • After more than a decade in which the balanced budget had assumed quasi-religious status, many were suddenly converted to the necessity of a major dose of deficit spending.
   • Each conversation is laden with emotional weight, which gives the movie a necessary dose of credibility.
   • And they must also ask whether a large dose of social justice is not a necessary accompaniment to political freedoms.
   • But theists are not usually willing to say, in all contexts, that all the evil that occurs is a minute and necessary dose.
   • In recent times this has received a dose of European Community law.
   • Perhaps this unpleasant dose of fiscal reality carries a political message - it may be time for the North's politicians to start running their own affairs.
   • Because I try to grow a high yield on a relatively small area (the raised beds), a good dose of compost is necessary.
   • For most people a dose of winter flu is unpleasant.
   • Excuse me for being slightly cynical, but going to a film doesn't necessarily imply a dose of culture.
   • It metes out necessary background in minor doses and towards the end things are actually starting to make more sense.
   • He gives the corps a necessary dose of athleticism.

1Administer a dose to (a person or animal)

1. 1.1 Adulterate or blend (a substance) with another substance.
   the champagne was dosed with sugar

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   • An original child's rocker is also kept here, which has been in the family for over 150 years, and is dosed with creosote in an effort to preserve the wood.
   • Later we found out that it had dosed their food with sleeping pills to stop them rioting.
   • I would show up for meals (I dined there regularly, proffering red wine as my contribution), never knowing what part of the meal would be dosed with pot.
   • At times he will eat nothing but the fish (heavily dosed with lemon juice), and at other times the fish is left to sit forlornly on the plate, while he consumes every French fry within reach (including mine).
   • By the time they were done placing concrete from the first truck, the other trucks had arrived and were dosed with the second nonchloride accelerator.
   • Conventional crops - where the land had been heavily dosed with herbicide before planting - also suffered dramatic loss of wildlife.
   • I purchased a small bag of the things, liberally dosed with salt and vinegar.
   • At the blending station, process and dilution water is dosed with pure lime.
   • With open sand bioreactors dosed with septic tank effluent, odors should not be a problem.
   • You'd probably like it dosed with sugar, but I preferred not this time.
   • As part of the amber level action the water system was spot dosed with chemicals and subjected to increased water temperatures to kill off the bacteria.
   • Some one went off in the motor to the nearest chemist's shop and returned presently with two large pieces of bread, liberally dosed with narcotic.
   • Staple foods, such as bread or cereal, should be dosed with folic acid.
   • Liquid test substances may be dosed directly or diluted prior to dosing.
   • The other herbs in the formula are adjusted and dosed according to signs and symptoms.
   • Methods of delivery include drug-filled rubber bullets, aerosol sprays and dosing a people's food or water supplies.
   • Agency experts believe dosing the water with chemicals could reduce the smell.
   • I made the mistake of dipping my pinkie into the sauce and trying it neat before dosing my food with it.
   • It doses the water with a chemical called orthophosphate which lines the pipes and limits the amount of lead dissolved into the water.
   • Since the 1940s, most American municipal water supplies have been routinely dosed with fluoride in a grand attempt to ward off tooth decay.