English noun: dose |
1. | dose (artifact) a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time |
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| Synonyms | dosage |
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| Broader (hypernym) | medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | booster, booster dose, booster shot, draft, draught, hit, lethal dose, lozenge, pill, recall dose, tab, tablet |
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2. | dose (quantity) the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time |
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| Synonyms | dosage |
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| Broader (hypernym) | indefinite quantity |
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3. | dose (state) a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact |
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| Synonyms | Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse |
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| Broader (hypernym) | contagion, contagious disease |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | chlamydia, clap, genital herpes, gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, herpes genitalis, LGV, lues, lues venerea, lymphogranuloma venereum, lymphopathia venereum, pox, syph, syphilis |
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4. | dose (artifact) street name for lysergic acid diethylamide |
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| Synonyms | acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen |
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| Broader (hypernym) | LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide |
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