diet
31diet — I 1. noun health problems related to your diet Syn: selection of food, food, foodstuffs; informal grub, nosh 2. verb she dieted for most of her life Syn: be on a diet, eat sparingly; lose weight, watch one s weight, reduce, slenderize II noun …
32diet — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. parliament, congress; food, aliment, edibles, intake, victuals; regimen. See food, remedy, assemblage, council. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [What one eats] Syn. fare, intake, daily bread*, nutrition; see… …
33diet — [13] Diet comes, via Old French diete and Latin diaeta, from Greek díaita ‘mode of life’. This was used by medical writers, such as Hippocrates, in the specific sense ‘prescribed mode of life’, and hence ‘prescribed regimen of food’. It has been… …
34diet — [13] Diet comes, via Old French diete and Latin diaeta, from Greek díaita ‘mode of life’. This was used by medical writers, such as Hippocrates, in the specific sense ‘prescribed mode of life’, and hence ‘prescribed regimen of food’. It has been… …
35diet — 1. n. & v. n. 1 the kinds of food that a person or animal habitually eats. 2 a special course of food to which a person is restricted, esp. for medical reasons or to control weight. 3 a regular occupation or series of activities to which one is… …
36Diet — The main food items in ancient Egypt were bread and beer. Depending on wealth, the diet could be supplemented by fish from the Nile; such fowl as ducks and geese, either domestic or killed in the wild; and meat in the form of cattle, sheep, or …
37Diet — n. National Diet of Japan, Japan s legislature that consists of two houses (the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors) …
38diet — diet1 noun 1》 the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats. 2》 a special course of food to which a person restricts themselves to lose weight or for medical reasons. ↘[as modifier] (of food or drink) with reduced fat… …
39diet — I. n. 1. Food, provision, victuals, aliment, nutriment, nourishment, subsistence, provision, fare, viands, regimen, cheer, rations, commons. 2. Assembly, convention, council, convocation, congress, parliament. II. v. n. 1. Eat sparingly, eat by… …
40diet — n. the mixture of foods that a person eats. A balanced diet contains the correct proportions of all the nutrients, i.e. vitamins, minerals (calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, chlorine, sulphur, magnesium, and the trace elements), and dietary …
