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Dose vs Doses - What's the difference?

dose | doses |

As a noun dose

is sow (female pig).

As an adjective doses is

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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.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 382:
    • 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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    doses

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (dose)
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