Diet

Noun

 * 1) The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
 * The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
 * 1)  A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
 * 2) By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
 * He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
 * 1)  A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

Derived terms

 * dietarian
 * dietary
 * dieter
 * dietetics

Verb

 * 1)  To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
 * 2) *1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, I.iii.1.2:
 * they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
 * 1)  To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.

Adjectives for Diet
abstemious; starvation; daily; piscatory ample; proper; modern; scant; mixed varied; balanced;  ordinary; exclusive monotonous; nut; fastidious;   invented staple; nourishing; enriched; astringent vitaminized; spurious; vegetarian; opti¬mum; adequate; coniferous; correct; predominant; meat; peculiar; skimpy; rigid; sensible; intellectual; carnivorous; dangerous; strict; liquid; heavy.

Verbs for Diet
adhere to—; adopt—; alter—; change—; commend—; complete—; compound—; discuss—; employ—; exclude from—; increase—; mix—; modify—; place on—; pres¬cribe—; recover on—of; reduce—; regu¬late—; restrict—; spare in—; subsist on—; supplement—; vary—; yield to—; —cures; —influences; —nourishes; —reduces; -stimulates; —supplies; —sustains.

Thesaurus
British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, abstain, acid-ash diet, advisory body, aliment, allergy diet, assemblee, assembly, assignation, association, at home, ball, bench, bicameral legislature, bland diet, board, board of aldermen, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, brawl, break bread, cabinet, calorie chart, calorie counter, camarilla, caucus, chamber, chamber of deputies, city board, city council, colloquium, commission, committee, common council, conclave, concourse, conference, congregation, congress, consultative assembly, conventicle, convention, convocation, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, count calories, county council, court, dance, date, deliberative assembly, diabetic diet, diet book, dietary, dietetics, dieting, directory, divan, eat, eisteddfod, fall to, fare, fast, federal assembly, feed, festivity, fete, food, forgathering, forum, gathering, general assembly, get-together, high-protein diet, high-vitamin diet, house, house of assembly, housewarming, hunger, intake, junta, kitchen cabinet, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislative chamber, legislature, levee, lose flesh, lose weight, low-carbohydrate diet, low-salt diet, lower chamber, lower house, macrobiotic diet, meet, meeting, national assembly, nourishment, nutriment, panel, pap, parish council, parliament, partake, partake of, party, pitch in, plenum, privy council, prom, provincial legislature, provincial parliament, quorum, rally, reception, reduce, reduce weight, regime, regimen, relish, rendezvous, representative town meeting, salt-free diet, savor, seance, session, shindig, sit-in, sitting, slenderize, slim, slim down, soft diet, soiree, soviet, spoon victuals, staff, state assembly, state legislature, subsistence, sustenance, symposium, syndicate, synod, take, take off weight, taste, thin down, town meeting, tribunal, turnout, ulcer diet, unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house, vegetarianism, victuals, vitamin-deficiency diet, weight-watch

Etymology
From diete < dieta <  δίαιτα:.

Noun

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Anagrams

 * edit
 * tide
 * tied

Noun

 * 1) a diet

Related terms

 * dietspecialist
 * dietspecialist