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 aǐsa share, lot); (v.) ME dieten (transit.) < AF, OF dieter, deriv. of the n.]
A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.
Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly: subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.
adj.
Of or relating to a food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person or an animal: the diet industry.
Having fewer calories.
Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.
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.]
A national or local legislative assembly in certain countries, such as Japan.
A formal general assembly of the princes or estates of the Holy Roman Empire.
[Middle English diete, day's journey, day for meeting, assembly, from Medieval Latin diēta, alteration (influenced by Latin diēs, day) of Latin diaeta, daily routine; see diet1.]
"regular food," c.1225, from O.Fr. diete, from M.L. dieta "parliamentary assembly," also "a day's work, diet, daily food allowance," from L. diaeta "prescribed way of life," from Gk. diaita, originally "way of life, regimen, dwelling," from diaitasthai "lead one's life," and from diaitan, originally "separate, select" (food and drink), freq. of *diainysthai "take apart," from dia- "apart" + ainysthai "take," from PIE base *ai- "to give, allot." Often with a sense of restriction since 14c.; hence put (someone) on a diet (c.1440). The verb meaning "to regulate oneself as to food" (especially against fatness) is from 1660. An obsolete word for this is banting (q.v.). The adj. in this sense (Diet Coke, etc.) is from 1963, originally Amer.Eng.
"assembly," c.1450, from M.L. dieta, var. of diaeta "daily office (of the Church), daily duty, assembly, meeting of counselors," from Gk. diaita (see diet (1)), but assoc. with L. dies "day" (see diurnal).
food, especially a course of recommended foods, for losing weight or as treatment for an illness etc Example: a diet of fish and vegetables; a salt-free diet; She went on a diet to lose weight.
Arabic:
حِمْيَه، نِظام خاص للتَّغْذِيَه
Chinese (Simplified):
食物（尤指医生推荐的减肥食物）
Chinese (Traditional):
食物(尤指醫生推薦的減肥食物)
Czech:
dieta
Danish:
diæt; kur; slankekur
Dutch:
dieet
Estonian:
dieet
Finnish:
dieetti, ruokavalio
French:
régime
German:
die Diät
Greek:
δίαιτα
Hungarian:
diéta, kímélő étrend
Icelandic:
mataræði; megrunarkúr
Indonesian:
susunan makanan
Italian:
dieta
Japanese:
ダイエット食
Korean:
음식, 식품, 규정식
Latvian:
diēta
Lithuanian:
dieta
Norwegian:
diett, kost(plan)
Polish:
dieta
Portuguese (Brazil):
dieta, regime
Portuguese (Portugal):
dieta
Romanian:
regim
Russian:
диета
Slovak:
diéta
Slovenian:
dieta
Spanish:
dieta, régimen
Swedish:
diet
Turkish:
rejim
diet[ˈdaiət]verb
to eat certain kinds of food to lose weight Example: She has to diet to stay slim.
Di"et\, n. [F. di[`e]te, L. diaeta, fr. Gr. ? 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. --Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.
Di"et\, v. 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\, v. 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.
Di"et\, n. [F. di[`e]te, LL. dieta, diaeta, an assembly, a day's journey; the same word as diet course of living, but with the sense changed by L. dies day: cf. G. tag day? and Reichstag.] A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
Di`e*tet"ic\, Dietetical \Di`e*tet"ic*al\, a. [Gr. ?: cf. F. di['e]t['e]tique. See Diet.] Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.
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