contagious disease vs dose

dose vs contagious disease

contagious disease and dose both are nouns.

contagious disease is not a verb while dose is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
contagious disease	Yes	No	No	No
dose	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, dose is a hyponym of contagious disease; that is, dose is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than contagious disease:

contagious disease: any disease easily transmitted by contact
dose: a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

Other hyponyms of contagious disease include flu, grippe, influenza, measles, morbilli, rubeola, diphtheria, scarlatina, scarlet fever, pox, trench mouth, Vincent's angina, Vincent's infection, Cupid's disease, Cupid's itch, sexually transmitted disease, social disease, STD, VD, venereal disease, venereal infection, Venus's curse, coronavirus disease.

contagious disease (noun)	dose (noun)
any disease easily transmitted by contact	a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
	street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
	the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
	a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact

contagious disease (verb)	dose (verb)
	administer a drug to
	treat with an agent; add (an agent) to

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