diet¹ Definition
diet (dī′ət)
noun
- what a person or animal usually eats and drinks; daily fare
- figuratively, what a person regularly reads, listens to, does, etc.
- a special or limited selection of food and drink, chosen or prescribed to promote health or a gain or loss of weight
Etymology: ME diete < OFr < ML dieta, diet, daily food allowance (meaning infl. by diet) < L diaeta < Gr diaita, way of life, regimen < dia-, through + root of aisa, fate < IE *aito-, share < base *ai-, to give, allot
intransitive verb, transitive verb
to eat or cause to eat special or limited food, esp. for losing weight
Etymology: ME dieten < ML dietare
diet¹ Related Forms
diet² Definition
diet (dī′ət)
noun
- Scot. a day's session of an assembly
- a formal assembly, as formerly of princes, electors, etc. of the Holy Roman Empire
- in some countries, a national or local legislative assembly
Etymology: ME diete < OFr < ML dieta < L dies, day: see deity
diet Synonyms
diet
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diet Synonyms
diet
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diet Usage Examples
Converse of object
- eat: People who are able to eat a good diet can cope with the treatment better.
- feed: Workhouse Diet The diet fed to workhouse inmates was often laid down in meticulous detail.
- resit: The group should consider the issue of whether a separate resit diet would be necessary in a new structure of the academic year.
- constitute: With this, she includes a discussion of what constitutes a good basic diet.
Adjective modifier
- balanced: A balanced diet is probably the best way to go.
- healthy: Can my child get all the vitamins they need from a healthy diet?
- vegetarian: Dogs can survive happily on an almost vegetarian diet which would make your cat very ill.
- low-fat: And eat a sensible low-fat diet so the liver doesn't have to try to process lots of fat.
- staple: Hedge laying This traditional form of boundary management would have once been the staple diet of any farm worker during the winter months.
- gluten-free: Evidence of poor vitamin status in coeliac patients on a gluten-free diet for 10 years.
Modifies a noun
- pill: Alphabetical Diet Helper - They offer a range of diet pills to help you with your diet.
- coke: Mandy came in to give me a diet coke that I asked for.
- cola: But just one thing before we start: donât even consider using diet cola; itâs full-fat or nothing.
- soda: I have been a diet soda drinker for about 5 years now and I have not noticed any side effects.
Noun used with modifier
- vegan: Human health All the necessary nutrients for humans can be obtained on a vegan diet.
- fad: Fad diets are not good for anyone, let alone for the person with diabetes, who is a very special person indeed!
- carbohydrate: In the short term, most people who go on low carbohydrate diets lose weight very quickly.
- carb: Zombie Planet is an independent action / drama... carb diet danger in the Zombie Planet movie synopsis... " carb crave killer.. .
- low-carb: Although a low-carb diet can cause weight loss, the goal of any program should be life long radiant health.
- high-protein: High-protein diets restrict carbohydrate intake, and, by default, that means some fruit and vegetables.
Browse dictionary entries near diet
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- ‹ diesis
- ‹ diesinker
- ‹ diesel
- ‹ dies non
- ‹ Dies Irae
- ‹ dieresis
- ‹ Dieppe
- ‹ diencephalon
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