diet

IPA: dˈaɪʌt

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
(by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
(usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
(Scotland) A session of exams
(Scotland, law) A criminal proceeding in court.
(Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
(microbiology) Abbreviation of direct interspecies electron transfer.
Alternative letter-case form of diet (council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly). [The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.]

(transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
(intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.

(of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
(informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.

Examples of "diet" in Sentences

Their diet consists of earthworms.
The community is Vegetarian in diet.
The diet of this species is carrion.
The staple food of the Indian diet is the yam.
Historically central to the Cornish diet was the idea of food thrift.
The right of the Carnivore animals of the world to their natural diet.
In the wild, its diet is mainly herbivorous with some live foods taken.
Gruel was a notable workhouse food, and was a staple of the workhouse diet.
The term Raw Food Diet describes a diet where all the food is raw and uncooked.
News also ranked diets in terms of diabetes prevention and maintenance, heart healthiness, and healthy eating.