diet
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English diet, dyet, diete, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”), from Latin diaeta, from Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).
Inflected forms:
form: diets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diët
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
rare
form: diate
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: diët
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
rare
form: diate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: diets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dieting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dieted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dieted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: diët
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
rare
form: diate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
pos: noun
examples: The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.
gloss: A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
The doctor put me on a low-salt diet.
My jeans are too tight, so I'm going on a diet.
gloss: Any habitual intake or consumption.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet.
gloss: Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: diet soda
Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more.
The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink.
Diet Light (Pizarro 724; snacks S2-7; 9:30am-10pm)
This perennially busy place serves not-very-diet, but yummy nonetheless, ice cream (S2 to S5) and whopping servings of mixed fruit (S3) – with ice cream.
gloss: Having certain traits subtracted.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
informal
not-comparable
examples: You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal.
gloss: To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.
gloss: To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.
As illustrating the belief that the Baptism by Blood was accompanied by a real regeneration of the devotee, Frazer quotes an ancient writer who says that for some time after the ceremony the fiction of a new birth was kept up by dieting the devotee on milk, like a new-born babe.
gloss: To eat; to take one's meals.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
gloss: To cause to take food; to feed.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: But partly led to diet my revenge […].
Related words: dieting
Derived words: 5:2 diet
antidiet
Atkins diet
Atlantic diet
balanced diet
carnivore diet
crash diet
desert the diet
dietarian
dietary
dietary fiber
Diet Coke
diet culture
dieter
dietetics
dietic
dietitian
dietless
dietology
dietwise
diety
don't diet, try it
elimination diet
fad diet
hypoglycemic diet
keto diet
ketogenic diet
lion diet
liquid diet
Maduro diet
Mediterranean diet
misdiet
mono diet
nondiet
Okinawa diet
palaeodiet
Paleo diet
paleodiet
prediet
road diet
South Beach Diet
Stillman diet
Stone Age diet
superdiet
Western pattern diet
Zone diet
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