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Diet is defined as a person's regularly consumed food and drink or it can mean regulating food intake to lose or gain weight.

(noun)

An example of diet is the eating of only vegetables.
An example of diet is the cutting back to precisely 1800 calories per day.

The definition of diet is 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

Origin: 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

Origin: ME dieten < ML dietare

Related Forms:

dieter noun

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

Origin: ME diete < OFr < ML dieta < L dies, day: see deity

See diet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English diete

Origin: , from Old French

Origin: , from Latin diaeta, way of living, diet

Origin: , from Greek diaita

Origin: , back-formation from diaitāsthai, to live one's life

Origin: , middle voice of diaitān, to treat