diet

Alternative forms

• diët (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪət/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪət

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.

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.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , I.iii.1.2:

     they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.

   • Spenser

     She diets him with fasting every day.

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 […].

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, 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.

Anagrams

• -tide, dite, edit, edit., tide, tied

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þeudō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

Noun

diet n (plural dieten, diminutive dietje n)

1. people, folk
2. person

Verb

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

1. to dance (archaic)

Contraction

diet

1. Contraction of die dat.
2. Contraction of die het.

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *tietë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtie̯h(t)/

Determiner

diet

1. that (near the listener)

Further reading

• Entry 21675 in Álgu database

Etymology

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

Noun

diet f

1. diet, régime; dieting

Mutation

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)

See also

• light

Noun

diet c

1. a diet

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /tiːt˧˥/
• Tone numbers: diet⁷
• Hyphenation: diet

Noun

diet (old orthography diet)

1. iron (metal)