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D0213600 (dī′ĭt)n.1. The usual food and drink of a person or animal.2. A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.3. Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly: subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.adj.1. Of or relating to a food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person or an animal: the diet industry.2. a. Having fewer calories.b. Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.3. Designed to reduce or suppress the appetite: diet pills; diet drugs.v. di·et·ed, di·et·ing, di·ets v.intr. To eat and drink according to a regulated system, especially so as to lose weight or control a medical condition.v.tr. To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.

[Middle English diete, from Old French, from Latin diaeta, way of living, diet, from Greek diaita, back-formation from diaitāsthai, to live one's life, middle voice of diaitān, to treat.]

di′et·er n.

di·et²

D0213600 (dī′ĭt)n.1. A national or local legislative assembly in certain countries, such as Japan.2. A formal general assembly of the princes or estates of the Holy Roman Empire.

[Middle English diete, day's journey, day for meeting, assembly, from Medieval Latin diēta, alteration (influenced by Latin diēs, day) of Latin diaeta, daily routine; see diet¹.]

diet

(ˈdaɪət) n1. (Medicine) a. a specific allowance or selection of food, esp prescribed to control weight or in disorders in which certain foods are contraindicated: a salt-free diet; a 900-calorie diet. b. (as modifier): a diet bread. 2. (Cookery) the food and drink that a person or animal regularly consumes: a diet of nuts and water. 3. regular activities or occupationsvb (Cookery) (usually intr) to follow or cause to follow a dietary regimen[C13: from Old French diete, from Latin diaeta, from Greek diaita mode of living, from diaitan to direct one's own life] ˈdieter n

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(ˈdaɪət) n1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (sometimes capital) a legislative assembly in various countries, such as Japan2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (sometimes capital) Also called: Reichstag the assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire3. (Historical Terms) (sometimes capital) Also called: Reichstag the assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire4. (Law) Scots law a. the date fixed by a court for hearing a caseb. a single session of a court[C15: from Medieval Latin diēta public meeting, probably from Latin diaeta diet¹ but associated with Latin diēs day]

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n. 1. food and drink considered in terms of qualities, composition, and effects on health. 2. a particular selection of food, esp. for improving a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat disease: a low-fat diet. 3. such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: to go on a diet. 4. the foods habitually eaten by a particular person, animal, or group. 5. any–thing habitually provided or partaken of: a steady diet of game shows and soap operas. v.i. 6. to select or limit the food one eats, esp. to lose weight. 7. to eat according to the requirements of a diet. v.t. 8. to regulate or limit the food of. 9. to feed. adj. 10. suitable for consumption with a weight-reduction diet: diet soda. [1175–1225; diete < Old French < Latin diaeta < Greek díaita way of living] di′et•er, n.

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n. 1. the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan. 2. the general assembly of the estates of the former Holy Roman Empire. [1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin diēta public assembly, appar. the same word as Latin diaeta (see diet¹) with sense affected by Latin diēs day]

diet

- Comes from Greek diaita, "a way of life, mode of living."See also related terms for mode.

Diet

a formal public assembly, e.g., Diet of Worms, 1521. See also assembly.

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Past participle: dieted
Gerund: dieting

Imperative
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Present
I diet
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we diet
you diet
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Preterite
I dieted
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we dieted
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Present Continuous
I am dieting
you are dieting
he/she/it is dieting
we are dieting
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Present Perfect
I have dieted
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Past Continuous
I was dieting
you were dieting
he/she/it was dieting
we were dieting
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Past Perfect
I had dieted
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he/she/it had dieted
we had dieted
you had dieted
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Future
I will diet
you will diet
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Future Perfect
I will have dieted
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Future Continuous
I will be dieting
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Present Perfect Continuous
I have been dieting
you have been dieting
he/she/it has been dieting
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you have been dieting
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Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been dieting
you will have been dieting
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Past Perfect Continuous
I had been dieting
you had been dieting
he/she/it had been dieting
we had been dieting
you had been dieting
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Conditional
I would diet
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we would diet
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Past Conditional
I would have dieted
you would have dieted
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Thesaurus

Noun	1.	diet - a prescribed selection of foods fare - the food and drink that are regularly served or consumedallergy diet - a diet designed to avoid the foods that you are allergic tobalanced diet - a diet that contains adequate amounts of all the necessary nutrients required for healthy growth and activitybland diet, ulcer diet - a diet of foods that are not irritating; "he ate a bland diet because of his colitis"diabetic diet - a diet designed to help control the symptoms of diabetesdietary supplement - something added to complete a diet or to make up for a dietary deficiencycarbo loading, carbohydrate loading - a diet of foods high in starch that increases carbohydrate reserves in muscles; "carbo loading is used by endurance athletes just before competing"gluten-free diet - diet prescribed to treat celiac disease; eliminates such foods as wheat and rye and oats and beans and cabbage and turnips and cucumbers that are rich in glutenhigh-protein diet - a diet high in plant and animal proteins; used to treat malnutrition or to increase muscle masshigh-vitamin diet, vitamin-deficiency diet - a diet designed to patients with vitamin deficiencieslight diet - diet prescribed for bedridden or convalescent people; does not include fried or highly seasoned foodsliquid diet - a diet of foods that can be served in liquid or strained form (plus custards or puddings); prescribed after certain kinds of surgerylow-fat diet - a diet containing limited amounts of fat and stressing foods high in carbohydrates; used in treatment of some gallbladder conditionslow-salt diet, low-sodium diet, salt-free diet - a diet that limits the intake of salt (sodium chloride); often used in treating hypertension or edema or certain other disordersobesity diet, reducing diet - a diet designed to help you lose weight (especially fat)soft diet, spoon food, pap - a diet that does not require chewing; advised for those with intestinal disordersvegetarianism - a diet excluding all meat and fish
	2.	diet - a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)law-makers, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislature, general assembly - persons who make or amend or repeal lawsNihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building
	3.	diet - the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movementfare - the food and drink that are regularly served or consumed
	4.	diet - the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)dietingfast, fasting - abstaining from food
Verb	1.	diet - follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"fast - abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons; "Catholics sometimes fast during Lent"
	2.	diet - eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weightfast - abstain from eating; "Before the medical exam, you must fast"

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¹noun1. food, provisions, fare, rations, subsistence, kai (N.Z. informal), nourishment, sustenance, victuals, commons, edibles, comestibles, nutriment, viands, aliment Watch your diet - you need plenty of fruit and vegetables.2. fast, regime, abstinence, regimen, crash diet, dietary regime, dietary programme Have you been on a diet? You've lost a lot of weight.verb1. slim, fast, be on a diet, lose weight, abstain, watch your weight, eat sparingly Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives.
slim indulge, glut, gobble, guzzle, get fat, pig out (slang), overindulge, stuff yourself, gormandizeQuotations
"all [diets] blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out" [Jean Kerr Please Don't Eat the Daisies]

diet

²noun (often cap.) council, meeting, parliament, sitting, congress, chamber, convention, legislature, legislative assembly The Diet has time to discuss the bill only until the 10th November.

diet

nounSomething fit to be eaten:aliment, bread, comestible, edible, esculent, fare, food, foodstuff, meat, nourishment, nurture, nutriment, nutrition, pabulum, pap, provender, provision (used in plural), sustenance, victual.Slang: chow, eats, grub.

Translations

节食规定饮食饮食吃减肥食物

diet

(ˈdaiət) noun food, especially a course of recommended foods, for losing weight or as treatment for an illness etc. a diet of fish and vegetables; a salt-free diet; She went on a diet to lose weight. 规定饮食（尤指医生推荐的减肥食物） verb to eat certain kinds of food to lose weight. She has to diet to stay slim. 吃减肥食物，节食 dietician, dietitian (ˌdaiəˈtiʃən) noun an expert on diets and dieting. 营养学家

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I'm on a diet → 我在节食

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parliamentary bodies in Japan, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, the Scandinavian nations, and Germany have been called diets. In German history, the diet originated as a meeting of landholders and burghers, convoked by the ruler to discuss financial problems. The imperial diet or Reichstag of the Holy Roman EmpireHoly Roman Empire,
designation for the political entity that originated at the coronation as emperor (962) of the German king Otto I and endured until the renunciation (1806) of the imperial title by Francis II.
..... Click the link for more information. began as a loose assembly of ecclesiastic princes and imperial cities, meeting at irregular intervals. After 1489 three colleges representing electorselectors,
in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors).
..... Click the link for more information. , princes, and imperial cities arrived at decisions separately—even over war and peace—then combined them. The emperor could ratify the whole or parts. Among the most important diets were those of Worms (1495) and Cologne (1512); see Maximilian IMaximilian I,
1459–1519, Holy Roman emperor and German king (1493–1519), son and successor of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. As emperor, he aspired to restore forceful imperial leadership and inaugurate much-needed administrative reforms in the increasingly
..... Click the link for more information. , Holy Roman emperor. The most important diets of the ReformationReformation,
religious revolution that took place in Western Europe in the 16th cent. It arose from objections to doctrines and practices in the medieval church (see Roman Catholic Church) and ultimately led to the freedom of dissent (see Protestantism).
..... Click the link for more information. were WormsWorms, Diet of,
1521, most famous of the imperial diets held at Worms, Germany. It was opened in Jan., 1521, by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. After disposing of other business, notably the question of the Reichsregiment, the diet took up the question of the recalcitrant behavior
..... Click the link for more information. (1521), Speyer (1529), and Augsburg (1530, 1547, 1555). The diet declined in importance and after the peace of Westphalia (1648) it became an assembly of independent princes, meeting after 1663 at Regensburg as a conference of ambassadors without legislative power. For the federal diet of 1815–66, which succeeded the imperial diet, see German ConfederationGerman Confederation,
1815–66, union of German states provided for at the Congress of Vienna to replace the old Holy Roman Empire, which had been destroyed during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. It comprised 39 states in all, 35 monarchies and 4 free cities.
..... Click the link for more information. . The term was revived for the legislature of the German Empire in 1871, and was used until the end of World War II; see ReichstagReichstag
[Ger.,=imperial parliament], name for the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of the North German Confederation, and for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany from 1871 to 1945.
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The Japanese diet was established as the national legislature in 1889. Until 1947, the upper house (Peers) was appointive, the lower (Representatives) elected. Its powers were negative: no bill could become law without its approval, except in an emergency; the government could function with last year's budget if the current one was not approved; legislation was initiated by the executive. After 1947, the upper house was made elective (Councillors). Suffrage became universal, and the lower house gained precedence over the selection of the prime minister, budgets, and treaties; it can override the upper house on bills with a two-thirds majority. Most legislation is initiated by the cabinet. Since 1947 the Japanese diet, once peripheral, is central to Japan's politics; see JapanJapan
, Jap. Nihon or Nippon, country (2015 est. pop. 127,975,000), 145,833 sq mi (377,835 sq km), occupying an archipelago off the coast of E Asia. The capital is Tokyo, which, along with neighboring Yokohama, forms the world's most populous metropolitan region.
..... Click the link for more information. , under Government and Politics.

diet,

food and drink regularly consumed for nourishment. Nutritionists generally recommend eating a wide variety of foods; however, some groups of people survive on a very limited diet. The traditional Eskimo diet, for example, depended heavily on meat, but Eskimos ate nearly all of the animal; organ meats are rich in vitamins and minerals. Vegetarians exclude meat (and sometimes by extension dairy products) from their diet, often for philosophical reasons. Others exclude only red meat, but eat poultry and dairy products. To maintain a healthy diet, vegetarians need to eat a wide variety of plants whose nutrients complement each other, providing a balance of amino acids and vitamins.

Cultural, Regional, and Practical Factors

Until the advent of refrigerationrefrigeration,
process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective.
..... Click the link for more information. , the most important factor in a person's diet was availability; diets varied according to animal migrations and the growing seasons of fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Another factor in food selection can be religion. Muslims, for example, are forbidden to drink alcohol.

Diets vary throughout the world. North Africa, with many Muslims, and the Middle East have similar diets. A starchy food (see starchstarch,
white, odorless, tasteless, carbohydrate powder. It plays a vital role in the biochemistry of both plants and animals and has important commercial uses. In green plants starch is produced by photosynthesis; it is one of the chief forms in which plants store food.
..... Click the link for more information. ), such as rice, boiled and pounded yam mush, or cassava, is often accompanied by a spicy stew of fish or chicken with vegetables. Other popular dishes include curries, kebabs (marinated meat threaded on a stick and roasted), couscous (steamed wheat semolina), falafel (a spiced fritter), and yogurt. Many Asian diets are based on rice, which is often served with bite-size vegetables and meats accompanied by spicy seasoning. In Europe, bread is often the main starch, but Italy is noted for pastapasta,
generic name for thin pieces of hardened, unleavened dough that are molded into various shapes and boiled, not baked. Pasta is commonly associated with Italian cuisine, though similar wheat flour and rice flour pastas, usually called noodles, have been known in Asia for a
..... Click the link for more information. , a nutritious noodle made from wheat and usually topped with a sauce, such as a small serving of cooked tomatoes garnished with cheese. In Scandinavia, fish in general, and herring in particular, are main staples of the diet.

Food has always been subject to cross-cultural influences, often as a result of colonization and migration of people. Thus, French influences can be seen throughout Asia, particularly in Japan and Indochina; Dutch influences in Indonesia and South Africa; and Indian influences throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. Certain foods, such as dumplings, are found in slightly different forms in all cultures. North American cuisine is an amalgam of Native American foods, such as corn-on-the-cob, and immigrant cuisines, including that of Africans.

Diet in the Twentieth Century

In the 20th cent. diets have been transformed by refrigeration, improved and faster transportation, advances in food preservationfood preservation,
methods of preparing food so that it can be stored for future use. Because most foods remain edible for only a brief period of time, people since the earliest ages have experimented with methods for successful food preservation.
..... Click the link for more information. , and new farming methods that prolong the growing season and increase the yield per acre. As a result, foods are available more regularly, items purchased in one season can be frozen and consumed in another, and prices have become more competitive. After World War II, increased advertising, particularly on television, and the growing number of households in which all adults are employed, contributed to an increased consumption of unhealthy fast foods. Efforts in the 1980s and 90s by health experts to educate the public about the importance of a healthy diet has had some impact. People are eating more fruits, grains, and vegetables, and less red meat, and are aware of the need to control their weight. The latter has given rise to many ineffective, and sometimes dangerous, fad diets that do not provide all of the necessary daily nutrients. Successful weight control requires a carefully planned regimen of exercise combined with a diet based on the nutritionnutrition,
study of the materials that nourish an organism and of the manner in which the separate components are used for maintenance, repair, growth, and reproduction. Nutrition is achieved in various ways by different forms of life.
..... Click the link for more information. information supplied by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Food Guide Pyramid (see food pyramidfood pyramid
or Food Guide Pyramid,
diagram used in nutrition education that fits food groups into a triangle and notes that, for a healthful diet, those at the base should be eaten more frequently than those at the top.
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Bibliography

See D. and P. Von Welanetz, The Von Welanetz Guide to Ethnic Ingredients (1982); J. Newman, Melting Pot: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Food and Nutrition Information for Ethnic Groups in America (1986); S. Quandt and C. Ritenbaugh, Training Manual in Nutritional Anthropology (1986); B. Griggs, The Food Factor: An Account of the Nutrition Revolution (1988).

Diet

a specially planned nutritional regimen with respect to quantity, chemical composition, physical properties, culinary processing, and intervals of food ingestion. The nutritional regimen of a healthy individual that meets the requirements of his occupation, sex, age, and so forth (a rational diet) is the subject of study of nutritional hygiene. Dietetics, the science of therapeutic nutrition, is concerned with the development and prescription of diets for sick individuals. The planning of a diet takes into account the functional, pathomorphological, metabolic, enzymic, and other disturbances in the human organism. A properly selected diet creates the most favorable background for the use of various treatments, reinforces the effects of these treatments, or exerts a therapeutic effect. The prophylactic significance of diet is that it deters acute diseases from becoming chronic ones.

REFERENCE

Pokrovskii, A. A. Besedy o pitanii. Moscow, 1968.
Diet for animals is the feeding regimen for a sick animal. Prescription of a diet takes into account the diagnosis and course of the disease, the state of the sick animal, and its age, sex, breed, and productivity. The feed rations of a sick animal must include high-quality, easily digestible feeds with a complete complement of the necessary nutrients. When there is a vitamin deficiency in the rations of herbivorous animals, they are given hay and meal of leguminous grasses, mixed silage, sprouted grain, infusion of coniferous needles, and nutritional yeasts. Carnivorous animals in the same situation are given milk, fresh meat, fish, liver, and eggs. When there is a deficiency or an incorrect proportion of macroelements and microelements, appropriate mineral supplements manufactured in the form of salt pellets or mixed feeds are introduced. Sometimes certain feeds are limited in the rations or are subjected to special processing (pulverization, steaming, fermentation).

REFERENCES

Dmitrochenko, A. P., and P. D. Pshenichnyi. Kormlenie se’skokhoziaistvennykh zhivotnykh. Leningrad, 1964.
Vnutrennie nezaraznye bolezni sel’skokhoziaistvennykh zhivotnykh, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1964.

diet

[′dī·ət] (biology) The food or drink regularly consumed. (medicine) Food prescribed, regulated, or restricted as to kind and amount, for therapeutic or other purpose.

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¹a. a specific allowance or selection of food, esp prescribed to control weight or in disorders in which certain foods are contraindicated b. (as modifier): a diet bread

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²1. Politics a legislative assembly in various countries, such as Japan 2. History the assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire 3. Scots lawa. the date fixed by a court for hearing a case b. a single session of a court

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noun the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

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noun the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

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verb follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons

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verb eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

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