Diet Definition
dīĭt
dieting, diets
noun
diets
What a person or animal usually eats and drinks; daily fare.
Webster's New World
Figuratively, what a person regularly reads, listens to, does, etc.
Webster's New World
A program or plan consisting of a special or limited selection of food and drink and designed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight; specif., such a program or plan designed to promote weight loss.
Webster's New World
Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly.
Subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.
American Heritage
The food and drink such a plan prescribes.
Webster's New World
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adjective
Of or for a diet, esp. one designed for weight loss.
Diet pills.
Webster's New World
Containing fewer calories and hence not promoting weight gain.
Diet cola.
Webster's New World
Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.
American Heritage Medicine
Designed to reduce or suppress the appetite.
Diet pills; diet drugs.
American Heritage Medicine
verb
dieting, diets
To eat or cause to eat special or limited food, esp. for losing weight.
Webster's New World
To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
- tighten-one-s-belt
- abstain
- slim-down
- lose-weight
- go-without
- count calories
- watch one's weight
- go on a diet
- reduce
- starve oneself
- slenderize
- weight-watch
- viands
- starvation
- regimen
abbreviation
(microbiology) Abbreviation of direct interspecies electron transfer.
Wiktionary
Origin of Diet
Middle English diete from Old French from Latin diaeta way of living, diet from Greek diaita back-formation from diaitāsthai to live one's life middle voice of diaitān to treat
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English diete day's journey, day for meeting, assembly from Medieval Latin diēta alteration (influenced by Latin diēs day) of Latin diaeta daily routine diet1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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