Meaning

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes..

Definitions by Sense

1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
2. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
3. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
4. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
5. (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
6. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
7. (transitive, dated) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
8. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.

Example Sentences

The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.

It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.

He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.

The doctor put me on a low-salt diet.

My jeans are too tight, so I'm going on a diet.

He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet.

diet soda

Word Forms

• diets
• diët
• diate
• dieting
• dieted

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Use diet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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