dose [dəʊs]
dose(
dos
)A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
1. (amount of medicine)
2. (amount)
A word or phrase that is commonly used in conversational speech (e.g. skinny, grandma).
(colloquial)
3. (gonorrhea)
A very informal word or phrase used by a particular group or community as a substitute for standard language (e.g. joint, john).
(slang)
a. la enfermedad venérea
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
Felipe brought a dose back with him from his time abroad.Felipe se trajo una enfermedad venérea de su viaje al extranjero.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).
dose
A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling or idea (e.g. man, dog, house).
1. (general)
a. la dosis
(f) means that a noun is feminine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
a dose of fluuna gripe or
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g. I bought a book.).
2. (colloquial)
a.
This refers to an idiomatic word or phrase for which there is no word-for-word translation.
no direct translation
to dose oneself (up) with pillstomarse una fuerte dosis de pastillas
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