diet

Diet means a person's regularly consumed food and drink or it can mean regulating food intake to lose or gain weight. (noun)

Diet means lower in fat, sugar, calories, etc. than the regular product. (adjective)

An example of diet is soda with zero calories.

Diet means to change food intake to lose weight. (verb)

An example of diet is to eat only healthy foods and those with little to no fat.

See diet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

1. what a person or animal usually eats and drinks; daily fare
2. 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

intransitive verb, transitive verb

to eat or cause to eat special or limited food, esp. for losing weight

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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

See diet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(dīˈĭt)

noun

The usual food and drink of a person or animal.
A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.
Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly: subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.

adjective

Of or relating to a food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person or an animal: the diet industry.
a. Having fewer calories.
b. Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.
Designed to reduce or suppress the appetite: diet pills; diet drugs.

verb di·et·ed, di·et·ing, di·ets

verb, intransitive

To eat and drink according to a regulated system, especially so as to lose weight or control a medical condition.

verb, transitive

To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.

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