diet
IPA: dˈaɪʌt
noun
- 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.]
verb
- (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.
adjective
- (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.
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