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Diet
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- 1 Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such. not-comparable
"diet soda"
- 2 Having certain traits subtracted. figuratively, informal, not-comparable
"You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal."
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of diet (“formal deliberative assembly”). alt-of
- 1 The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
"The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo."
- 2 A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly. capitalized, usually
"the National Diet of Japan"
- 3 Abbreviation of direct interspecies electron transfer. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
- 4 the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) wordnet
- 5 A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. countable
"He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis."
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- 6 A session of exams. Scotland
"Normally the diet begins towards the end of April."
- 7 the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) wordnet
- 8 Any habitual intake or consumption. broadly
"He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years."
- 9 A criminal proceeding in court.
- 10 a prescribed selection of foods wordnet
- 11 A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland. Scotland
"a diet of worship"
- 12 a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan) wordnet
- 1 To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health. intransitive
"I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight."
- 2 eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight wordnet
- 3 To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. dated, transitive
"they will diet themselves, feed and live alone."
- 4 follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons wordnet
- 5 To eat; to take one's meals. obsolete
"Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth."
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- 6 To cause to take food; to feed. obsolete, transitive
"But partly led to diet my revenge […]."
Etymology
From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Ancient Greek δῐ́αιτα (dĭ́aita, “way of living, living space; decision, judgement”), influenced by Latin diēs (“day”).
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