diet

[DiĀ·et]

Diet means the usual food and drink consumed by a person or animal. A healthy diet for your pet is not the same as your diet, so you shouldn't feed your dog all your table scraps.

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Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

Noun
the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

Noun
the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

Noun
a prescribed selection of foods

Noun
a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

Verb
eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

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Verb
follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"


n.
Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

n.
A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

v. t.
To cause to take food; to feed.

v. t.
To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

v. i.
To eat; to take one's meals.

v. i.
To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

n.
A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.


Diet

Di"et , n. [F. di'8ate, L. diaeta, fr. Gr. manner of living.] 1. Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare. "No inconvenient diet." Milton. 2. A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
To fast like one that takes diet.
Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

Diet

Di"et, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dieted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dieting.] 1. To cause to take food; to feed. [R.] Shak. 2. To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
She diets him with fasting every day.

Diet

Di"et, v. i. 1. To eat; to take one's meals. [Obs.]
Let him . . . diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth.
2. To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

Diet

Di"et, n. [F. di'8ate, LL. dieta, diaeta, an assembly, a day's journey; the same word as diet course of living, but with the sense changed by L. dies day: cf. G. tag day and Reichstag.] A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

To cause to take food; to feed.

To eat; to take one's meals.

A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

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Usage Examples

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

Adopting a new healthier lifestyle can involve changing diet to include more fresh fruit and vegetables as well as increasing levels of exercise.

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

A boxer's diet should be low in fat and high in proteins and sugar. Therefore you should eat plenty of lean meat, milk, leafy vegetables, and fresh fruit and ice cream for sugar.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

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Other Usage Examples

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

A plant-based diet has actually simplified my life in so many ways. For breakfast, I try to get my first serving of fruits and nuts for fuel. I'm completely addicted to coconut water for the electrolytes and hydration.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.

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