dose vs medicine

dose and medicine both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dose	Yes	No	Yes	No
medicine	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, medicine is a hypernym of dose; that is, medicine is a word with a broader meaning than dose:

dose: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
medicine: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

Other hypernyms of dose include medicament, medication, medicinal drug.

As verbs, medicine is a hypernym of dose; that is, medicine is a word with a broader meaning than dose:

Other hypernyms of dose include medicate.

dose (noun)	medicine (noun)
a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time	the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide	punishment for one's actions
the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time	(medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease
a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact	the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques

dose (verb)	medicine (verb)
administer a drug to	treat medicinally, treat with medicine
treat with an agent; add (an agent) to