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Webster 1913 Edition

Diet

Di′et

,
Noun.
[F.
diète
, L.
diaeta
, fr. Gr. [GREEK] manner of living.]
1.
Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
“No inconvenient diet.”
Milton.
2.
A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
To fast like one that takes
diet
.
Shakespeare
Diet kitchen
,
a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

Di′et

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dieted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dieting
.]
1.
To cause to take food; to feed.
[R.]
Shak.
2.
To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
She
diets
him with fasting every day.
Spenser.

Di′et

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To eat; to take one’s meals.
[Obs.]
Let him . . .
diet
in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth.
Bacon.
2.
To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly;
as, the doctor says he must
diet
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Diet

DIET

,
Noun.
[L., Gr., manner of living, mode of life prescribe by a physician, food, a room, parlor or bed room. In the middle ages, this word was used to denote the provision or food for one day, and for a journey of one day. Hence it seems to be from dies, day, or its root; and hence the word may have come to signify a meal or supper, and the room occupied for eating.]
1.
Food or victuals; as, milk is a wholesome diet; flesh is nourishing diet.
2.
Food regulated by a physician, or by medical rules; food prescribed for the prevention or cure of disease, and limited in kind or quantity. I restrained myself to a regular diet of flesh once a day.
3.
Allowance of provision.
For his diet there was a continual diet given him by the king. Jeremiah 52.
4.
Board, or boarding; as, to pay a certain sum for diet, washing and lodging.

DIET

,
Noun.
[G.] An assembly of the states or circles of the empire of Germany and of Poland; a convention of princes, electors, ecclesiastical dignitaries, and representatives of free cities, to deliberate on the affairs of the empire. There are also diets of states and cantons.

DIET

, v.t.
1.
To feed; to board; to furnish provisions for; as, the master diets his apprentice.
2.
To take food by rules prescribed; as, an invalid should carefully diet himself.
3.
To feed; to furnish aliment; as, to diet revenge.

DIET

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To eat according to rules prescribed.
2.
To eat; to feed; as, the students diet in commons.

Definition 2024

Diet

Diet

See also: diet, diệt, diët, and DIET

English

Proper noun

Diet

  1. Alternative letter-case form of diet (council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly).

diet

diet

See also: Diet, diệt, diët, and DIET

English

Alternative forms

Noun

diet ‎(plural diets)

  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
    The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
    • 2013, Martin D Buckland, ‎Lynda Hall, ‎Alan Mowlem, A Guide to Laboratory Animal Technology, page 56:
      It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.
  2. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
    He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
  4. (countable, usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
    They were given representation of some important diet committees.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

diet ‎(third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)

  1. (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
    I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
  3. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
    • Francis Bacon
      Let him […] diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
    • Othello
      But partly led to diet my revenge […].

Translations

Adjective

diet ‎(not comparable)

  1. (of a food or beverage) Containing lower-than-normal amounts of fat, salt, sugar, and/or calories, or claimed to have such.
    diet soda
    • 1982, Consumer Guide, Dieter's Complete Guide to Calories, Carbohydrates, Sodiums, Fats & Cholesterol, page 18:
      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.
    • 1998, Andy Sae, Chemical Magic from the Grocery Store:
      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.
    • 2010, Lonely Planet Peru (ISBN 1742203698), page 347:
      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.
    • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:diet.
  2. (figuratively) Having the questionable traits subtracted.
    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.‎

Translations

Anagrams

Latvian

Verb

diet ?? missing information., 1st conj., pres. deju, dej, dej, past deju

  1. to dance (archaic)

Declension

Synonyms

Northern Sami

Etymology

Of Uralic origin. Cognate to Finnish tämä, Estonian tema and Hungarian té- in tétova ‎(“here and there”).

Determiner

diet

  1. that (near the listener)

Inflection

Inflection of diet (pronominal declension)
Nominative diet
Genitive dien
singular plural
Nominative diet diet
Genitive dien dieid
Accusative dien dieid
Illative diesa dieidda
Locative dies diein
Comitative dieinna dieiguin
Essive dienin

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowing from Medieval Latin diēta ‎(“daily allowance, regulation, daily order”), from Ancient Greek δίαιτα ‎(díaita).

Noun

diet f

  1. diet, régime; dieting

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
diet diet
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndiet
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Portuguese

Etymology

From English diet.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈdajt͡ʃ/

Adjective

diet ‎(plural diet, comparable)

  1. (of food or beverage) diet (containing lower-than-normal amounts of calories)

Related terms

See also

Swedish

Noun

diet c

  1. a diet

Declension

Inflection of diet 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative diet dieten dieter dieterna
Genitive diets dietens dieters dieternas

Related terms

Zhuang

Noun

diet

  1. iron (metal)

Etymology

From Old French diete, from Medieval Latin dieta "daily allowance, regulation, daily order", from Ancient Greek δίαιτα ‎(díaita).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdaɪət/
  • Rhymes: -aɪət

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