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4-letter words (3 found)

DOES,DOSE,ODES,

3-letter words (10 found)

DOE,DOS,DSO,EDS,ODE,ODS,OES,OSE,SED,SOD,

2-letter words (8 found)

DE,DO,ED,ES,OD,OE,OS,SO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from dose according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of dose

dose

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from δίδωμι (dídōmi, “to give”). Doublet of doos.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dəʊs/
  • (US) IPA(key): /doʊs/
  • Rhymes: -əʊs

Noun

dose (plural doses)

  1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
  2. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
  3. (figurative, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
    Synonym: fill (as in have one's fill)
  4. (figurative) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
  5. (dated) A venereal infection.
  6. (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • dosage
Descendants
  • → Malay: dos
Translations

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

  1. (transitive) To administer a dose (of medicine) to.
  2. To prescribe a dose.
  3. (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
  4. (transitive, dated) To transmit a venereal disease to.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dose (plural doses)

  1. Archaic form of doze.

Verb

dose (third-person singular simple present doses, present participle dosing, simple past and past participle dosed)

  1. Archaic form of doze.

Anagrams

  • Does, SOED, deos, deso, does, odes

Afrikaans

Noun

dose

  1. plural of doos

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪o.se]
  • Hyphenation: do‧se

Numeral

dóse (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜐᜒ)

  1. twelve
    Synonym: kagduwa

Related terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪o.s̪e]
  • Hyphenation: do‧se

Numeral

dóse (Badlit spelling ᜇᜓᜐᜒ)

  1. twelve

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doz/

Etymology 1

From Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis). Doublet of dot.

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

  1. proportion
  2. dose
Derived terms
  • dose de cheval
  • en avoir sa dose
Related terms
  • doser
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dose

  1. inflection of doser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “dose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Ilocano

Alternative forms

  • doce — obsolete, Abecedario orthography

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈdo.se]
  • Hyphenation: do‧se

Numeral

dose

  1. twelve
    Synonym: sangapulo ket dua

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ.ze/
  • Rhymes: -ɔze
  • Hyphenation: dò‧se

Noun

dose f (plural dosi)

  1. dose
  2. quantity, amount, measure
  3. deal (great-good) (gran dose-buona dose)

Derived terms

  • dosare

Anagrams

  • sedo, sedò, sode

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis).

Noun

dose m (definite singular dosen, indefinite plural doser, definite plural dosene)

  1. a dose, dosage

References

  • “dose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “dose_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis).

Noun

dose m (definite singular dosen, indefinite plural dosar, definite plural dosane)

  1. a dose, dosage

References

  • “dose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

dose

  1. locative singular of dosa
  2. accusative plural of dosa

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis).

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔzi

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

  1. dose (measured portion of medicine)
  2. (Portugal) portion (of food)
    Synonym: porção
  3. (informal) fix (a single dose of an addictive drug)

Further reading

  • “dose”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Etymology 2

Verb

dose

  1. inflection of dosar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce (“twelve”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdose/ [ˈd̪oː.sɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ose
  • Syllabification: do‧se

Numeral

dose (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜐᜒ)

  1. twelve
    Synonym: labindalawa

Related terms

Further reading

  • “dose”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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