different between dose vs interval

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French dose, from Late Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek ????? (dósis, “a portion prescribed”, literally “a giving”), used by Galen and other Greek physicians to mean an amount of medicine, from ?????? (díd?mi, “to give”). Doublet of doos.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /do?s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

dose (plural doses)

1. A measured portion of medicine taken at any one time.
2. The quantity of an agent (not always active) substance or radiation administered at any one time.
3. (figuratively, dated) Anything disagreeable that must be taken.
4. (figuratively, dated) A good measure or lengthy experience of something.
5. 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.

Related terms

• dosage

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To administer a dose to.
2. To prescribe a dose.
3. To transmit a venereal disease.
   • 1977, The White Buffalo, Wild Bill Hickok:

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

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

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 […]

Verb

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

1. Archaic form of doze.

Anagrams

• Does, SOED, deos, deso, does, odes

Afrikaans

Noun

dose

1. plural of doos

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish doce, from Old Spanish doze, dodze, from Latin duodecim.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: do?se

Numeral

dose

1. twelve

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dose.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doz/

Etymology 1

From Latin dosis, from Ancient Greek ????? (dósis). Doublet of dot.

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

1. proportion
2. dose

Derived terms

• dose de cheval
• en avoir sa dose

Related terms

• doser

Descendants

• ? Turkish: doz

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dose

1. first-person singular present indicative of doser
2. third-person singular present indicative of doser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of doser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of doser
5. second-person singular imperative of doser

Further reading

• “dose” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

dose f (plural dosi)

1. dose
2. quantity, amount, measure
3. deal (great-good) (gran dose-buona dose)

Derived terms

• dosare

Anagrams

• sedo, sedò, sode

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (dósis)

Noun

dose m (definite singular dosen, indefinite plural doser, definite plural dosene)

1. a dose, dosage

References

• “dose” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dose_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (dósis)

Noun

dose m (definite singular dosen, indefinite plural dosar, definite plural dosane)

1. a dose, dosage

References

• “dose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

dose

1. locative singular of dosa
2. accusative plural of dosa

Portuguese

Noun

dose f (plural doses)

1. dose (measured portion of medicine)
2. (Portugal) portion (of a meal / food)

   Synonym: porção

3. (informal) fix (a single dose of an addictive drug)

Further reading

• “dose” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish doce

Numeral

dose

1. twelve

   Synonym: labindalawa

English

Etymology

From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, from Latin intervallum (“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”), from inter (“between”) + vallum (“palisade, wall”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??nt?v?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nt?v?l/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?val

Noun

interval (plural intervals)

1. A distance in space.
   • 1666, 8 September, The London Gazette

     [M]any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it [the fire] by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces […]

2. A period of time.

   the interval between contractions during childbirth

3. (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
4. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
5. (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
6. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
7. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

Hyponyms

• (mathematics): open interval, half-open interval, closed interval, sub-interval/subinterval,

Derived terms

• even-interval

Related terms

• interval class
• interval cycle

Translations

Further reading

• interval in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• interval in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• interval at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Interval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Interval in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intervallum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.t???val/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.t?r?bal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.te??val/

Noun

interval m (plural intervals)

1. interval

Further reading

• “interval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “interval” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “interval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “interval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??nt?rval]

Noun

interval m inan

1. (mathematics) interval

Derived terms

• intervalový
• otev?ený interval
• uzav?ený interval
• interval spolehlivosti
• konfiden?ní interval

Further reading

• interval in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• interval in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt?rv?l/

Noun

interval n (plural intervallen, diminutive intervalletje n)

1. interval

Derived terms

• integratie-interval

See also

• tussenruimte

Romanian

Etymology

From French intervalle, from Latin intervallum.

Noun

interval n (plural intervale)

1. interval

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /int?r?a?l/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?val

Noun

intèrv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. interval

Declension