Diet

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To provide diet or food for; feed; nourish.
  • To prescribe food for; regulate the food or regimen of.
  • To eat; feed.
  • To eat according to rules prescribed: as, to diet in an attack of dyspepsia.
  • noun. A meeting, as of dignitaries or delegates, held from day to day for legislative, political, ecclesiastical, or municipal purposes; meeting; session: specifically applied by English and French writers to the legislative assemblies in the German empire, Austria, etc.
  • noun. The discharge of some part of ministerial duty at a fixed time: as, a diet of examination; a diet of visitation.
  • noun. An excursion; a journey.
  • noun. Food and drink; specifically, food considered in relation to its quality and effects: as, milk is a wholesome article of diet.
  • noun. A course of food regulated by a physician or by medical rules; food prescribed for the prevention or cure of disease, and limited in kind and quantity; dietetic regimen; dietary.
  • noun. Allowance of provision; supply of food.
  • noun. Allowance for expenses of living.
  • noun. Synonyms Subsistence, fare, provision.
  • noun. Regimen.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To eat; to take one's meals.
  • intransitive verb. To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly.
  • transitive verb. To cause to take food; to feed.
  • transitive verb. To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
  • noun. Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc.
  • noun. The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary.
  • noun. The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government.
  • noun. The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province.
  • noun. The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 -- 66).
  • noun. In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag).
  • noun. Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
  • noun. A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
  • noun. a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  • noun. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  • noun. By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
  • noun. A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
  • verb. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  • verb. To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
  • noun. a prescribed selection of foods
  • noun. the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)
  • verb. eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight
  • noun. a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
  • noun. the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
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