dose
noun /dəʊs/
/dəʊs/
Idioms - 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.
Wordfinder- administer
- capsule
- dispense
- dose
- ill
- inhaler
- medicine
- medication
- pharmacy
- placebo
Extra ExamplesTopics Social issuesc1- The nurse will administer the correct dose.
- a strong dose of painkillers
- patients who receive high doses of this drug
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- large
- massive
- …
- get
- receive
- take
- …
- (informal) an amount of something
- 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).
- The film also contains a hefty dose of comedy.
Word Originlate Middle English: from French, via late Latin from Greek dosis ‘gift’, from didonai ‘give’.
Idioms
like a dose of salts
- (British English, old-fashioned, informal) very fast and easily
- He got through the housework like a dose of salts.
a taste/dose of your own medicine
- the same bad treatment that you have given to others
- Let the bully have a taste of his own medicine.