diet.
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Meaning & usage
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
The doctor put me on a low-salt diet.
Any habitual intake or consumption.
He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Where this word comes from
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).
Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
Having certain traits subtracted.
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.
Where this word comes from
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).
To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
To eat; to take one's meals.
To cause to take food; to feed.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
the National Diet of Japan
They were given representation in some important diet committees.
A session of exams.
A criminal proceeding in court.
A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
a diet of worship
Where this word comes from
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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