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Dose vs Dos - What's the difference?

dose | dos |

As nouns the difference between dose and dos

is that dose is sow (female pig) while dos is can, tin.

dose

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
  • The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
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  • A venereal infection.
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    • It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.

    Verb

    (dos)
  • to administer a dose
  • to prescribe a dose

    • Anagrams

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    dos

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (computing) ; a family of 16-bit text-based operating systems for early IBM personal computers

    • Derived terms

    * DR-DOS * MS-DOS

    Initialism

    (Initialism) (head)
  • (military) Date(s) of service
  • (military) Date of separation
  • (US) Department of State
  • (sciences) Density of states

    • See also

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    Anagrams

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