diet

• diët (rare)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪət/, /ˈdaɪ.ɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪət

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

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.

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.

From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.

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):

     they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Edmund 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare, Othello

     But partly led to diet my revenge […].

From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Latin diēs (“day”).

diet (plural diets)

1. (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.

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

Revival by Flemish nationalists of Middle Dutch diet (“people, folk”), from Proto-Germanic *þeudō, from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂.

diet n (uncountable)

1. The Flemish people

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

1. to dance (archaic)

• dejot
• dancot
• griezt danci
• pamest līku kāju

diet

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

From Proto-Samic *tietë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtie̯h(t)/

diet

1. that (near the listener)

• Entry 21675 in Álgu database

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

diet f

1. diet, régime; dieting

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From English diet.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdajt͡ʃ/

diet (plural diet, comparable)

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

• dieta

• light

diet c

1. a diet

• dietist
• dietspecialist

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

diet (old orthography diet)

1. iron (metal)