different between dose vs session

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 session, from Old French session, from Latin sessi? (“a sitting”), from sede? (“sit”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Homophone: cession

Noun

session (plural sessions)

1. A period devoted to a particular activity, e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislative body (that together comprise the legislative term) whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
2. A meeting of a council, court, school, or legislative body to conduct its business.

3. (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.

4. (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
5. (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, […] / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood.

6. (music) Ellipsis of jam session
7. (education) An academic term.

Hyponyms

• bull session

Derived terms

• parasession
• sessionize
• sessionless
• session musician
• session-replicated

Related terms

Translations

Verb

session (third-person singular simple present sessions, present participle sessioning, simple past and past participle sessioned)

1. (music) To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.

Anagrams

• essoins, osseins

Finnish

Noun

session

1. Genitive singular form of sessio.

French

Etymology

From Old French session, borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.sj??/

Noun

session f (plural sessions)

1. session, period
2. (computing) session

Related terms

• seoir

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sessi?, sessi?nem.

Noun

session f (oblique plural sessions, nominative singular session, nominative plural sessions)

1. sitting; session (of a court, a committee, etc.)

Descendants

• French: session
• ? Middle English: session
  • English: session