| diet | |
| 1. n. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. | |
| The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo. | |
| 2. n. A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health. | |
| 3. n. By extension, any habitual intake or consumption. | |
| He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years. | |
| 4. n. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly. | |
| They were given representation of some important diet committees. | |
| 5. v. To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | |
| 6. v. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health. | |
| I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight. | |
| 7. v. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed. | |
| 9. adj. (of a food or beverage) Containing lower-than-normal amounts of fat, salt, sugar, and/or calories, or claimed to have such. | |
| diet soda | |
| 10. adj. (figurative) Having the questionable traits subtracted. | |
| You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal. | |
