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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