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 Definitions of diet  [ˈdaɪ ɪt]  

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Definition of 'diet' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) diet
food and drink considered in terms of qualities, composition, and effects on health.

2.  diet
a particular selection of food, esp. for improving a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat disease:
a low-fat diet.

3.  diet
such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight:
to go on a diet.

4.  diet
the foods habitually eaten by a particular person, animal, or group.

5.  diet
any–thing habitually provided or partaken of:
a steady diet of game shows and soap operas.

6. (v.i.) diet
to select or limit the food one eats, esp. to lose weight.

7.  diet
to eat according to the requirements of a diet.

8. (v.t.) diet
to regulate or limit the food of.

9.  diet
to feed.

10. (adj.) diet
suitable for consumption with a weight-reduction diet:
diet soda.

11. (n.) diet
the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.

12.  diet
the general assembly of the estates of the former Holy Roman Empire.

Etymology:  (1400–50; late ME < ML diēta public assembly, appar. the same word as L diaeta (see diet1) with sense affected by L diēs day)

Definition of 'diet' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) diet
a prescribed selection of foods

2. (noun) diet
a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

3. (noun) diet
the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

4. (verb) diet, dieting
the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

5. (verb) diet
follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
"He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"

6. (verb) diet
eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight


Definition of 'diet' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) diet
the type of food sb eats
a healthy/unhealthy diet; diet and exercise; a diet of fruit and vegetables

2.  diet
the process of eating less in order to lose weight
I'm going on a diet.

3. (verb) diet
to eat less in order to lose weight
people who diet without exercising


Definition of 'diet' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) diet
course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare

2. (noun) diet
a course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed

3. (noun) diet
a legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521

4. (verb) diet
to cause to take food; to feed

5. (verb) diet
to cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of

6. (verb) diet
to eat; to take one's meals

7. (verb) diet
to eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet


Definitions of 'diet' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  diet
a convention of the princes, dignitaries, and delegates of the German empire, for legislative or administrative purposes, of which the most important in a historical point of view are diets held at Augsburg in 1518, at Worms in 1521, at Nüremberg in 1523, 1524, at Spires in 1526, 1529, at Augsburg in 1530, at Cologne in 1530, at Worms in 1536, at Frankfort in 1539, at Ratisbon in 1541, at Spires in 1544, at Augsburg in 1547, 1548, 1550, and at Ratisbon in 1622.


Definition of 'diet' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  diet
Regular course of eating and drinking adopted by a person or animal. This does not include DIET THERAPY, a specific diet prescribed in the treatment of a disease.


Translation of 'diet' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: food, especially a course of recommended foods, for losing weight or as treatment for an illness etc
a diet of fish and vegetables; a salt-free diet; She went on a diet to lose weight.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: dieet, leefreël Arabic flag Arabic: حِمْيَه، نِظام خاص للتَّغ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: диета
Brazilian flag Brazilian: dieta Czech flag Czech: dieta German flag German: die Diät
Danish flag Danish: diæt; kur; slankekur Greek flag Greek: δίαιτα Spanish flag Spanish: dieta, régimen
Estonian flag Estonian: dieet Farsi flag Farsi: غذای روزمره؛ رژیم غذایی Finnish flag Finnish: ruokavalio
French flag French: régime Hebrew flag Hebrew: דִיאֶטָה Hindi flag Hindi: खूराक
Croatian flag Croatian: dijeta, način prehrane Hungarian flag Hungarian: diéta, kímélő étrend Indonesian flag Indonesian: susunan makanan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: mataræði; megrunarkúr Italian flag Italian: dieta Japanese flag Japanese: ダイエット食
Korean flag Korean: 식이요법 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: dieta Latvian flag Latvian: diēta
Malay flag Malay: makanan lazim Dutch flag Dutch: dieet Norwegian flag Norwegian: diett, kost(plan)
Polish flag Polish: dieta Persian flag Persian: غذای روزمره؛ رژیم غذایی Pashto flag Pashto: خواړه، غذا، پر هېز، غذايې
Portuguese flag Portuguese: dieta Romanian flag Romanian: regim Russian flag Russian: диета
Slovak flag Slovak: diéta Slovenian flag Slovenian: dieta Serbian flag Serbian: dijeta
Swedish flag Swedish: diet Thai flag Thai: อาหารเพื่อลดน้ำหนัก Turkish flag Turkish: rejim
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 食物(尤指醫生推薦的減肥食物) Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: дієта Urdu flag Urdu: خاص یا محدود غذا
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: chế độ ăn kiêng Chinese flag Chinese: 规定饮食(尤指医生推荐的减肥食物)

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