different between dose vs proportion

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 proporcion, from Old French proportion, from Latin pr?porti? (“comparative relation, proportion, symmetry, analogy”), from pro (“for, before”) + portio (“share, part”); see portion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???p????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???p????n/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /p???po(?)???n/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /p???po???n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)??n
• Hyphenation: pro?por?tion

Noun

proportion (countable and uncountable, plural proportions)

1. (countable) A quantity of something that is part of the whole amount or number.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital, […]!”

2. (uncountable) Harmonious relation of parts to each other or to the whole.
3. (countable) Proper or equal share.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     Let the women […] do the same things in their proportions and capacities.

4. The relation of one part to another or to the whole with respect to magnitude, quantity, or degree.
   • 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

     The image of Christ made in Pilate's time after his own proportion.
5. (mathematics, countable) A statement of equality between two ratios.
6. (mathematics, archaic) The "rule of three", in which three terms are given to find a fourth.
7. (countable, chiefly in the plural) Size.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

proportion (third-person singular simple present proportions, present participle proportioning, simple past and past participle proportioned)

1. (transitive) To divide into proper shares; to apportion.
2. (transitive) To form symmetrically.
3. (transitive, art) To set or render in proportion.
4. (transitive, archaic) To correspond to.

Translations

Further reading

• proportion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• proportion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Etymology

From Latin pr?porti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.p??.sj??/

Noun

proportion f (plural proportions)

1. proportion

Derived terms