diet, dieting
(noun) the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
diet
(noun) the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)
diet
(noun) a prescribed selection of foods
diet
(noun) a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
diet
(verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight
diet
(verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; “He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
diet (plural diets)
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
(by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
diet (not comparable)
(of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
(informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
Synonym: lite
diet (third-person singular simple present diets, present participle dieting, simple past and past participle dieted)
(transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
(intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
(obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
diet (plural diets)
(usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
(Scotland) A session of exams
(Scotland, legal) The proceedings under a criminal libel.
(Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
• -tide, dite, edit, edit., tide, tied
DIET (uncountable)
(microbiology) Abbreviation of direct interspecies electron transfer.
• -tide, dite, edit, edit., tide, tied
Diet
Alternative letter-case form of diet (council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly).
• -tide, dite, edit, edit., tide, tied
Source: Wiktionary
Di"et, n. Etym: [F. diète, L. diaeta, fr. Gr.
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. Etym: [F. diète, 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 dayReichstag.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 January 2025
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; “We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba”; “trace the student’s progress”; “trace one’s ancestry”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
