Dose

Definitions of Dose
  1. noun
    airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
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    types:
    Kaffeekanne
    a can for storing ground coffee
    Milchkanne
    large can for transporting milk
    type of:
    Behälter
    any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another)
  2. noun
    the quantity contained in a can
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    type of:
    Container, nicht definite Raumeinheit
    the quantity that a container will hold
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