Definitions for DIET
ˈdaɪ ɪtdi·et

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 2 votes

1. dietnoun

   a prescribed selection of foods

2. dietnoun

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

3. dietnoun

   the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

4. diet, dietingverb

   the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

5. dietverb

   follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons

   "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"

6. dietverb

   eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dietnoun

   The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

   The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.

2. dietnoun

   A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

3. dietnoun

   By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.

   He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

4. dietnoun

   A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

5. dietverb

   To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

6. dietverb

   To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.

7. Etymology: From diete, from dieta, from δίαιτα.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DIETnoun

   Etymology: diœta, low Latin; δίαιτα.

   1. Food; provisions for the mouth; victuals.

   They cared for no other delicacy of fare, or curiosity of diet, than to maintain life. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.

   Time may come, when men
   With angels may participate; and find
   No inconvenient diet, nor too light fare. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   No part of diet, in any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so agreeable to the stomach, as good and well-ripened fruits. William Temple.

   Milk appears to be a proper diet for human bodies, where acrimony is to be purged or avoided; but not so proper where the canals are obstructed, it being void of all saline quality. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

   2. Food regulated by the rules of medicine, for the prevention or cure of any disease.

   I commend rather some diet for certain seasons, than frequent use of physick; for those diets alter the body more, and trouble it less. Francis Bacon, Essay 31.

   I restrained myself to so regular a diet, as to eat flesh but once a day, and little at a time, without salt or vinegar. William Temple.

2. Dietnoun

   Etymology: from dies, an appointed day, Skinner: from diet, an old German word signifying a multitude, Junius.

   An assembly of princes or estates.

   An emperour in title without territory, who can ordain nothing of importance but by a diet, or assembly of the estates of many free princes, ecclesiastical and temporal. Walter Raleigh.

3. To Dietverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To feed by the rules of medicine.

   She diets him with fasting every day,
   The swelling of his wounds to mitigate,
   And made him pray both early and eke late. Fairy Queen.

   Shew a while like fearful war,
   To diet rank minds sick of happiness,
   And purge th’ obstructions, which begin to stop
   Our very veins of life. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

   He was not taken well; he had not din’d:
   The veins unfill’d, our blood is cold; and then
   We powt upon the morning, are unapt
   To give or to forgive; but when we’ve stuff’d
   These pipes, and these conveyances of blood,
   With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls
   Than in our priestlike fasts; therefore I’ll watch him
   ’Till he be dieted to my request. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   I will attend my husband, be his nurse,
   Diet his sickness; for it is my office. William Shakespeare, Com. of Err.

   Henceforth my early care
   Shall ’tend thee, and the fertile burden ease
   ’Till dieted by thee, I grow mature
   In knowledge as the gods, who all things know. John Milton, P. L.

   We have lived upon expedients, of which no country had less occasion: we have dieted a healthy body into a consumption, by plying it with physick instead of food. Jonathan Swift.

   2. To give food to.

   I’m partly led to diet my revenge,
   For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
   Hath leapt into my seat. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   3. To board; to supply with diet.

4. To Dietverb

   1. To eat by rules of physick.2. To eat; to feed.

   I join with thee calm peace and quiet;
   Spare fast, that oft with gods doth diet. John Milton.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. DIET

   DIET is a software for grid-computing. As middleware, DIET sits between the operating system (which handles the details of the hardware) and the application software (which deals with the specific computational task at hand). DIET was created in 2000. It was designed for high-performance computing. It is currently developed by INRIA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, SysFera. It is open-source software released under the CeCILL license. Like NetSolve/GridSolve and Ninf, DIET is compliant with the GridRPC standard from the Open Grid Forum.The aim of the DIET project is to develop a set of tools to build computational servers. The distributed resources are managed in a transparent way through the middleware. It can work with workstations, clusters, Grids and clouds. DIET is used to manage the Décrypthon Grid installed by IBM in six French universities (Bordeaux 1, Lille 1, Paris 6, ENS Lyon, Crihan in Rouen, Orsay).

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1. diet

   A diet refers to the kinds and amounts of food that a person, animal, or community habitually consumes. It may also refer to a specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons, which could involve eating or not eating specific foods.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Dietnoun

   course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare

2. Dietnoun

   a course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed

3. Dietverb

   to cause to take food; to feed

4. Dietverb

   to cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of

5. Dietverb

   to eat; to take one's meals

6. Dietverb

   to eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet

7. Dietnoun

   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

8. Etymology: [F. dite, LL. dieta, diaeta, an assembly, a day's journey; the same word as diet course of living, but with the sense changed by L. dies day: cf. G. tag day, and Reichstag.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Diet

   In politics, a diet is a formal deliberative assembly. The term is mainly used historically for the Imperial Diet, the general assembly of the Imperial Estates of the Holy Roman Empire, and for the legislative bodies of certain countries. Modern usage mainly relates to the Japanese Parliament, called "Diet" in English.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Diet

   dī′et, n. mode of living, with especial reference to food: food prescribed by a physician: allowance of provisions.—v.t. to furnish with food.—v.i. to eat: to take food according to rule.—n. Dietā′rian, one who observes prescribed rules for diet.—adj. Dī′etary, pertaining to diet or the rules of diet.—n. course of diet: allowance of food, esp. in large institutions.—ns. Dī′et-drink, medicated liquor; Dī′eter (Shak.), one who diets or prepares food by rule.—adjs. Dietet′ic, -al, pertaining to diet.—adv. Dietet′ically.—ns. Dietet′ics, rules for regulating diet; Dietet′ist, one who lays stress on diet; Dī′etist, an authority on diet. [Fr. diète—Low L. diæta—Gr. diaita, mode of living, diet.]

2. Diet

   dī′et, n. an assembly of princes and delegates, the chief national council in several countries in Europe: (Scots law) the proceedings under a criminal libel: a clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland, a diet of worship.—n. Dī′etine, a minor or local diet.—Desert the diet, to abandon criminal proceedings under a particular libel—in Scotch usage. [O. Fr. diete—Low L. diæta—Gr. diaita; or acc. to Littré, from L. dies, a (set) day, with which usage cf. Ger. tag, a day, reichstag.]

The Nuttall EncyclopediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. diet

   The regulated food for patients in sick-bays and hospitals.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. diet

   An accurate, specific and moderate amount of a variety of plant-based food and a balance of other food groups and a sufficient amount of fluid in the form of a drink.

   Our diet is the food we eat and drink.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on March 11, 2020  

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1. DIET

   What does DIET stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the DIET acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Animal
   • Fare
   • Fast
   • Legislature

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DIET' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2533

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DIET' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3129

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'DIET' in Nouns Frequency: #1002

Anagrams for DIET »

1. edit

2. tide

3. tied

4. dite

How to pronounce DIET?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of DIET in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of DIET in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of DIET in a Sentence

1. Jennifer Shu:

   In moderation, it's never 'there's just one good food or perfect food or one bad food you have to avoid.' You have to know juice's place in the healthy diet, we prefer simply to let parents make their own decision about that.

2. Ashley Roman:

   I think what's interesting about this study compared to some data previously is that Jordi Julvez better quantify the relationship between how much fish is consumed in a diet and then the benefits for the fetus and ultimately the child, they're able to correlate the fish consumption with protection from autism and I think that is potentially a very important finding.

3. Sonya Angelone:

   The Western diet is way too high in sodium. ... People eat way too much, and The Western diet increases your risk for cardiovascular disease, stroke and stomach cancer.

4. Max Maizels:

   Keep things that may irritate the bladder away from the diet while the bedwetting is resolving like carbonated beverages, citrus, melons, caffeinated foods.

5. Richard Isaacson:

   You can't just eat a magic blueberry or follow a certain diet and think that your likelihood of Alzheimer's is going to go away, people take different roads to Alzheimer's disease and dementia.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=DIET
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Diet
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=DIET
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/DIET
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=DIET
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=DIET
9. ^ The Nuttall Encyclopedia
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12342/pg12342-images.html#Diet
10. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=DIET