Dose - Definition

n 1: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn:
dose, dosage]
2: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation)
taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: dose, dosage]
3: a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or
genital contact [syn: venereal disease, VD, venereal
infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's
disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted
disease, STD]
4: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid,
back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis,
loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane,
superman, window pane, Zen]
v 1: treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the
paint"
2: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist"
[syn: drug, dose]