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di⋅et

1  [dahy-it] noun, verb, -et⋅ed, -et⋅ing, adjective
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–noun
1. food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health: Milk is a wholesome article of diet.
2. a particular selection of food, esp. as designed or prescribed to improve a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease: a diet low in sugar.
3. such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: No pie for me, I'm on a diet.
4. the foods eaten, as by a particular person or group: The native diet consists of fish and fruit.
5. food or feed habitually eaten or provided: The rabbits were fed a diet of carrots and lettuce.
6. anything that is habitually provided or partaken of: Television has given us a steady diet of game shows and soap operas.
–verb (used with object)
7. to regulate the food of, esp. in order to improve the physical condition.
8. to feed.
–verb (used without object)
9. to select or limit the food one eats to improve one's physical condition or to lose weight: I've dieted all month and lost only one pound.
10. to eat or feed according to the requirements of a diet.
–adjective
11. suitable for consumption with a weight-reduction diet; dietetic: diet soft drinks.
Origin:
1175–1225; (n.) ME diete < AF, OF < L diaeta < Gk díaita way of living, diet, equiv. to dia- dia- + -aita (akin to aîsa share, lot); (v.) ME dieten (transit.) < AF, OF dieter, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
di⋅et⋅er, noun
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di·et 1   (dī'ĭt)   
n.  
  1. The usual food and drink of a person or animal.
  2. A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.
  3. Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly: subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.
adj.  
  1. Of or relating to a food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person or an animal: the diet industry.
    1. Having fewer calories.
    2. Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.
  3. Designed to reduce or suppress the appetite: diet pills; diet drugs.
v.   di·et·ed, di·et·ing, di·ets

v.   intr.
To eat and drink according to a regulated system, especially so as to lose weight or control a medical condition.
v.   tr.
To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.

[Middle English diete, from Old French, from Latin diaeta, way of living, diet, from Greek diaita, back-formation from diaitāsthai, to live one's life, middle voice of diaitān, to treat.]
di'et·er n.
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