diet

UK /ˈdaɪət/ US /ˈdaɪət/
noun 8verb 4adj 2name 1

Definitions

noun

1

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.

It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.

2

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.

3

Any habitual intake or consumption.

He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet.

adj

1

Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

diet soda

Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more.

2

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.

verb

1

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.

2

To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.

When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.

3

To eat; to take one's meals.

Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.

4

To cause to take food; to feed.

But partly led to diet my revenge […].

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