Dose vs Intake - What's the difference?
dose | intake |
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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to administer a dose
to prescribe a dose
The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.
The beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
The quantity taken in.
An act or instance of taking in: an intake of oxygen or food.
The people taken into an organisation or establishment at a particular time.
To take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).
As nouns the difference between dose and intake
is that dose is sow (female pig) while intake is the place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; opposed to outlet.As a verb intake is
to take or draw in (in all the senses of the noun).dose
English
Noun
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- It would be very expensive to cure a dose here, as well as unbelievably painful.
Verb
(dos)Anagrams
* ----intake
English
Noun
- the intake of air
- the new intake of students