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1.The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
- The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
- It is common policy to order no more diet than will be used within one month.
2.A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
- The doctor put me on a low-salt diet.
- My jeans are too tight, so I'm going on a diet.
- He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
3.Any habitual intake or consumption.
- He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
- Last week the aging video game retailer emerged as the hottest stock on Wall Street, a story just unexpected and absurd enough to fill the new Trump-shaped void in our nation’s media diet.
4.A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
- They were given representation in some important diet committees.

1.Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
- Many grocery chains offer premium-priced lean or diet hamburger; but the fat content is usually at least 10 percent, sometimes 15 percent or more.
- The difference in weight (mass) of the regular and the diet drink of the same brand roughly equals to the amount of sugar in the regular drink.
2.Having certain traits subtracted.(informal)
- 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.

1.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 I've lost some weight.

Uncommon· #2233

From Middle English diet, dyet, diete

From Old French diete

From Medieval Latin dieta (“regimen, regulation; assembly”)

From Latin diaeta

From Ancient Greek δίαιτα (díaita).