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WIKTIONARY
diet
Noun
∙
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
∙
A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
countable
∙
By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
∙
A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
countable, usually capitalized as a proper noun
Verb
∙
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
transitive
∙
To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
intransitive
∙
To eat; to take one's meals.
obsolete
∙
To cause to take food; to feed.
obsolete, transitive
Adjective
∙
Containing lower-than-normal amounts of fat, salt, sugar, and/or calories, or claimed to have such.
of a food or beverage
∙
Having the questionable traits subtracted.
figuratively
Diet
Proper noun
∙
Alternative letter-case form of
diet
(council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly).
DIET
Abbreviation
∙
Abbreviation of
direct interspecies electron transfer
.
microbiology