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Dose vs Doze - What's the difference?

dose | doze |

As nouns the difference between dose and doze

is that dose is a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time while doze is a light, short sleep or nap.

As verbs the difference between dose and doze

is that dose is to administer a dose while doze is to sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.

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

    * ----

    doze

    English

    Verb

    (doz)
  • To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap.
  • I didn’t sleep very well, but I think I may have dozed a bit.
  • * L'Estrange
  • If he happened to doze a little, the jolly cobbler waked him.
  • To make dull; to stupefy.
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • I was an hour in casting up about twenty sums, being dozed with much work.
  • * South
  • They left for a long time dozed and benumbed.
  • (slang) To bulldoze.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) a light, short sleep or nap
  • I felt much better after a short doze .

    Synonyms

    * See

    Derived terms

    * dozer * doze off * dozy

    See also

    * catnap * nap * shuteye * sleep * slumber ----