doseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dəʊs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /doʊs/
• 韻: -əʊs

名詞

dose (plural doses)

1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.

   Why did he give you only a single 500 mg dose? The correct dosage of this antibiotic is one 500 mg tablet twice a day for 10 days.

2. The quantity of an agent (not always active), substance, or radiation administered or experienced at any one time.
   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death. Nowadays workers are exposed to far lower doses and manganism is rare.

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.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 197:

     “I had then, as you remember, just returned to London after a lot of Indian Ocean, Pacific, China Seas - a regular dose of the East - six years or so, and I was loafing about, hindering you fellows in your work and invading your homes, just as though I had got a heavenly mission to civilise you.”

   • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 78:

     The prospect of becoming a father is a dose of reality that threatens to bring his dream world crashing down.

   • 2025 December 9, Veronique Greenwood, “Your Bedroom Probably Isn't Dark Enough”, in TIME‎:

     People who don't get their daily dose of light at the right time of day can end up with worse health.

5. (dated) A venereal infection.
   • 1972, Shel Silverstein, “Don't Give A Dose to the One You Love Most”:

     Don't give a dose to the one you love most. / Give her some marmalade... give her some toast.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 382:

     It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.

6. (Ireland, colloquial) A cold; a common, viral illness of the nasal passage, sometimes with fever.

   There's a dose going round.

派生語

関連する語

• dosage

派生した語

• → Malay: dos
• → Tamil: டோஸ் (ṭōs)

動詞

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.
   • 1871, George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond, page 270:

     "She thought herself broad awake, and I have dosed her with an opiate."

2. To prescribe a dose.
3. (transitive) To surreptitiously administer a dose of an incapacitating drug (to an unwilling subject); to roofie.
   • 2016, Pamela Donovan, Drink Spiking and Predatory Drugging: A Modern History, page 71:

     The defense never conceded that their clients had administered chloral [hydrate], but Death and Campbell said initially—during their contested station house confessions—that McAlister had dosed [Jennie Bosschieter's] drink.

4. (transitive, dated) To transmit a venereal disease to.
   • 1977, The White Buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok:

     Sometime back, one of your scarlet sisters dosed me proper.

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名詞

dose (plural doses)

1. Archaic form of doze.
   • 1839, Benjamin Abbott, Experience and Gospel Labors of the Rev. Benjamin Abbott:

     Just at the dawning of the day, I fell into a dose more like sleep than any I had during the whole night, in which I dreamed that I saw a river as clear as crystal […]

動詞

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

1. Archaic form of doze.
   • 1918, William Henry Hudson, Far Away And Long Ago:

     It was to me a marvellous experience; to be here, propped up with pillows in a dimly-lighted room, the night-nurse idly dosing by the fire; the sound of the everlasting wind in my ears, howling outside […]

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