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nounPlural diets ˈdʌɪətˈdaɪət 1The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats. Example sentencesExamples - Amazingly, some people define vegetarian as a diet which excludes the meat of animals but does permit fish and eggs.
- This allows management decisions to be made to ensure that the total diet of wintered animals meets their biological and productive needs.
- They represent a major cost-of-living blow for lower income groups for whom bread and mealie meal are the staple diet.
- But these huge animals have very nutritious diets: they eat berries, nuts, insects, and of course, honey.
- The vegetarian diet is the best food that I have tasted since being arrested.
- As soups are a main staple of the Thai diet, the menu showcases various permutations incorporating veggies, seafood and chicken in tom yum and tom khaa varieties.
- There were other feeds for animals, but hay was the staple diet.
- Clearly, many vegetarians live off diets of convenience food and this is incredibly unhealthy.
- Staples of the Serbian diet are bread, meat, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products.
- Vegetarians base their diet on four main food groups: starch, legumes, fruits and vegetables.
- There are many concerns with eating diets high in animal fat.
- Some land was tilled, mainly for the cultivation of oats that formed a staple part of the diet of the settler community.
- This article reported on a certain agriculture professor from Oregon that claimed a strict vegetarian diet caused animals to suffer.
- When your staple diet is cheap food, you can afford a few treats - the kind of treats you could never get from your local post office.
- And we get residues of the hormones in those foods, so if you are going to eat, I recommend reducing animal foods in the diet.
- Food was very basic with beans and rice being the staple diet.
- The addition of straw to the diets of all animals on the farm will allow silage supplies to be stretched.
- Unlike ovo-lacto vegetarians, vegans have eliminated all animal products from their diets.
- The calming, sattvic temperament accruing from a vegetarian diet is reflected in animals.
- Rice is a staple food in the diet of most Ivoirians.
Synonyms selection of food, food and drink, food, foodstuffs, provisions, edibles, fare menu, table, meals nourishment, nutriment, sustenance informal grub, nosh, eats, chow, scoff formal comestibles, provender archaic aliment, victuals, vittles, viands, commons - 1.1 The activities, pastimes, etc. in which a person or group habitually engages.
screen violence is becoming the staple diet of the video generation Example sentencesExamples - The channel would present a constant diet of obituaries of the ordinary people who die every day.
- Applications to strike out for want of prosecution have become the common diet of the courts, but there are two unusual features of the present case.
- I confess that I've not made it part of my regular blog diet, but I think I may.
- Even the best-fed consumers have only four to five ‘kitchens’ dishing up their regular news diet.
- The early seventies took him west to San Francisco and a diet of Irish music sessions.
- It seems that for many average internet users, blogs still merely provide an information supplement at some specific times, rather than a regular news diet.
- The White House strategy so far is to feed the media a regular diet of press conferences from key figures within the administration.
- Of course, no one is suggesting that Congress subsist on a regular diet of impeachments.
- It is the staple diet of Courts of Appeal around this country.
- But life is short and workdays are long so I have to be choosy about what to include in my diet of books and I like to read widely with a balanced diet of different genres.
- Hymns with a military theme used to be a staple in the musical diet of Christians in North America.
- This music has enriched the musical diet of choral establishments, collegiate and cathedral, throughout the Anglican Communion.
- If she stayed, she would be assigned a steady diet of deportation orders from the criminal division to defend.
- Have we become a nation of obese imbeciles too sated with our diet of consumerism, television and self-indulgence to care who is pulling the strings at the top?
2A special course of food to which a person restricts themselves, either to lose weight or for medical reasons. Example sentencesExamples - Your doctor can help you get information about good diets and weight loss programs.
- I always say I want to lose weight but the diet only lasts a week and then its out of the window.
- With movie stars and models getting more gaunt each year, many people go on diets to lose weight to make themselves look and feel better.
- Some people do lose weight on low-carb diets, but the weight loss probably isn't related to blood sugar and insulin levels.
- Overweight children should be put on Atkins-style diets to lose weight and prevent life-threatening diseases, a cancer specialist has claimed.
- At no time during the study did the participants complain of being hungry, which is an important consideration when recommending diets to promote weight loss.
- Handouts are available in English and Spanish on topics such as weight control, diets to lose weight, and exercise programs.
- I tried countless fad diets to lose weight, but none worked.
- If you're on a diet to lose weight, you'll stay away from places that serve fattening food.
- Overall, these drugs when combined with a diet produce a modest weight loss in 12 months.
- How many times have you made a New Year's resolution to go on a diet and lose some weight?
- It's far easier to take precautions before the damage is done, rather than embarking on fad diets to lose the weight that you gained over the festive season.
- Short-term diets may help you lose weight, but they are difficult to keep up and even may be unhealthy in the long run.
- People tend to lose weight quickly on low-carb diets because they restrict their calories to about 1,200 a day.
- Children should never be put on a weight-loss diet without medical advice as this can affect their growth.
- If you think about food and weight and diets and being thin almost all the time, you may have an eating disorder.
- I am twelve years old and I weigh 160 pounds and I have tried a lot of diets to lose weight but I have never been able to stick to one.
- I tried fad diets to lose weight, but none worked, and I kept getting bigger.
- He also discourages people from attempting to follow fad diets in order to lose weight.
- It may be more important to stick to a diet and lose weight than to worry about the moral implications of the food you eat.
Synonyms dietary regime, dietary regimen, dietary programme, restricted diet, crash diet fast, period of fasting, abstinence - 2.1as modifier (of food or drink) with reduced fat or sugar content.
Example sentencesExamples - Fruit drink and diet drink consumption increased diabetes risk, but fruit juice intake did not.
- Stop eating fake food - most everything labeled as diet food or diet beverage.
- She stayed up in her room for the remainder of the night smoking and drinking the diet soda she had stashed under her bed.
- They quiz me about the hottest new diet snack food, offer to be my running buddy and reveal their food obsessions.
- Children should drink water or diet drinks rather than juice or cola drinks.
- Despite all of my talking in this post about diet drinks, I am working pretty hard at drinking two to three litres of water a day.
- He has cut them out and drinks water rather than diet drinks, which he doesn't particularly enjoy.
- I personally believe that drinking the water from a young nut is a much healthier choice than drinking some of those diet sodas that are loaded with artificial sweeteners.
- Avoid all artificial sweeteners found in diet drinks and some diabetic foods as these are toxic to the liver and can cause hypoglycaemia and fatigue.
- But Ireland is no longer the Mecca for tea brands it once was, with the average office worker as likely to have a diet cola drink, or a cappuccino, as a cup of tea at break time.
- A year after launch, it was America's most popular diet drink, a position it has never relinquished.
- I waste money on all sorts of stuff - cable television, deli sandwiches, diet ginger ale.
- I only drank diet soda, and I started to get more seafood including sushi.
- Worse still, aspartame is contained in most of these diet foods and drinks.
- It found that the more diet soda a person drinks, the greater the chance that he or she will become overweight or obese.
- Woman who drank diet soda pop that was artificially sweetened did not show any increased risk and tended to lose weight.
- To fuel her long days, Valerie relied on a diet of fast food and drank six to 12 cans of caffeinated diet soda a day.
- Limit yourself to two caloric beverages, then try sparkling water or diet drinks.
- Would you drink a diet cola if you knew it gave lab rats a sugar rush?
- Personally, I hate the after taste of diet drinks and would rather forgo the cola.
verbdiets, dieted, dietingˈdʌɪətˈdaɪət [no object]1Restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight. Example sentencesExamples - We love food and we hate it; we binge and we diet; we perceive it as both a treat and a threat.
- I really can't be bothered to diet, but I do feel I need to lose some weight.
- The hard part about this is ensuring you don't lose any hard-earned muscle while you're dieting.
- Do you realise that before I left for Melbourne and you began dieting, I weighed more than you, even then?
- Very obese people tend not to exercise and are frequently poor, and they spend a disproportionate amount of time dieting.
- Maybe that's why people regain their weight after they diet: they are in better condition to eat more.
- This time I dieted so the weight came off as I worked on my skills.
- By 11 she was gaining weight; at 15, distressed by playground taunts, she began dieting.
- If we want a different weight, we diet or body build.
- He believes some obese people cannot lose weight purely by dieting - they are clinically ill.
- I eat the same types of food whether I'm dieting for a show or in a gaining phase.
- Thanks to her advice, I've never dieted and I've kept my weight in check.
- If you are not dieting, losing weight is a serious symptom as are tiredness and weakness.
- I've been told that the weight won't just drop off - I still have to diet and exercise to lose it, it'll just be easier than before.
- Inevitably, you lose focus on your diet and blow up even fatter than when you began dieting.
- It says don't diet just eat sensibly and the weight will drop off.
- In 2000 the British Medical Association warned that female TV stars often dieted to appear slim on TV, but ended up too thin because they tended to overcompensate for the effects of television.
- If you are no more than a stone or so heavier than you were in your late 20s, you probably shouldn't worry about your weight or try to diet.
- If a woman, famous or not, decides she needs to diet or have weight loss surgery for her own health or happiness, far be it from me to sit in judgment.
- Even if I'm dieting, I will just bring some food with me to the restaurant.
Synonyms follow a diet, be on a diet, eat sparingly, eat selectively, abstain, fast slim, lose weight, watch one's weight North American reduce North American informal slenderize - 1.1with object Put (a person or animal) on a special diet.
Example sentencesExamples - He dieted me down to 185, to make sure I was as lean as possible.
Derivatives nounˈdʌɪətəˈdaɪədər More research in America has now suggested it could also affect mental health, leaving dieters feeling grumpy, tired, apathetic and restless. Example sentencesExamples - Having discussed my position as the family's most successful dieter, I finished my third helping of lemon meringue pie, and finally agreed to escort Lisa out of there, picking up a microwave and toaster on the way out.
- Although the low-carb dieters lost more weight initially, one of the studies showed that after 12 months both groups had shed about the same number of pounds.
- I love nibbling and, despite always being on the larger side, I have been a yo-yo dieter all my life.
- But most dieters reach their plateau before they reach their goal, and many get discouraged when the thrill leaves before all the weight does.
Origin Middle English: from Old French diete (noun), dieter (verb), via Latin from Greek diaita 'a way of life'. In the context of food diet reaches back to Greek diaita ‘way of life’. In the context of government and administration, for example, as the name of the legislative assembly in some European countries, diet comes from medieval Latin dieta, which meant both ‘a day's work or pay’ and ‘councillors’. Martin Luther committed himself to the cause of Protestant reform at the Diet of Worms, a meeting of the imperial diet of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1521 in the German town of Worms on the Rhine.
Rhymes Byatt, quiet, riot, ryot, Wyatt nounPlural diets ˈdʌɪətˈdaɪət 1A legislative assembly in certain countries. Example sentencesExamples - The term originated with the protest of the reforming minority at the diet of Spires in 1529 against the catholic majority.
- Under the ‘October Diploma’ of 1860, the government agreed to call the diets, which would then elect to the Reichsrat.
Synonyms legislative assembly, legislature, parliament, congress, senate, synod, council assembly, committee, convocation, conclave - 1.1historical A regular meeting of the states of a confederation.
- 1.2Scots Law A meeting or session of a court.
Example sentencesExamples - That judgment sympathetically, clearly and concisely deals with a case that must have been very far from the ordinary diet of a judge sitting in the crown court.
Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin dieta 'day's work, wages, etc.', also 'meeting of councillors'. nounˈdaɪətˈdīət 1The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats. Example sentencesExamples - There were other feeds for animals, but hay was the staple diet.
- The addition of straw to the diets of all animals on the farm will allow silage supplies to be stretched.
- Staples of the Serbian diet are bread, meat, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products.
- And we get residues of the hormones in those foods, so if you are going to eat, I recommend reducing animal foods in the diet.
- Rice is a staple food in the diet of most Ivoirians.
- But these huge animals have very nutritious diets: they eat berries, nuts, insects, and of course, honey.
- Unlike ovo-lacto vegetarians, vegans have eliminated all animal products from their diets.
- Vegetarians base their diet on four main food groups: starch, legumes, fruits and vegetables.
- Amazingly, some people define vegetarian as a diet which excludes the meat of animals but does permit fish and eggs.
- There are many concerns with eating diets high in animal fat.
- They represent a major cost-of-living blow for lower income groups for whom bread and mealie meal are the staple diet.
- Clearly, many vegetarians live off diets of convenience food and this is incredibly unhealthy.
- The vegetarian diet is the best food that I have tasted since being arrested.
- This article reported on a certain agriculture professor from Oregon that claimed a strict vegetarian diet caused animals to suffer.
- Food was very basic with beans and rice being the staple diet.
- As soups are a main staple of the Thai diet, the menu showcases various permutations incorporating veggies, seafood and chicken in tom yum and tom khaa varieties.
- The calming, sattvic temperament accruing from a vegetarian diet is reflected in animals.
- This allows management decisions to be made to ensure that the total diet of wintered animals meets their biological and productive needs.
- When your staple diet is cheap food, you can afford a few treats - the kind of treats you could never get from your local post office.
- Some land was tilled, mainly for the cultivation of oats that formed a staple part of the diet of the settler community.
Synonyms selection of food, food and drink, food, foodstuffs, provisions, edibles, fare - 1.1 A regular occupation or series of activities in which one participates.
a healthy diet of classical music Example sentencesExamples - Applications to strike out for want of prosecution have become the common diet of the courts, but there are two unusual features of the present case.
- This music has enriched the musical diet of choral establishments, collegiate and cathedral, throughout the Anglican Communion.
- But life is short and workdays are long so I have to be choosy about what to include in my diet of books and I like to read widely with a balanced diet of different genres.
- It seems that for many average internet users, blogs still merely provide an information supplement at some specific times, rather than a regular news diet.
- The White House strategy so far is to feed the media a regular diet of press conferences from key figures within the administration.
- Have we become a nation of obese imbeciles too sated with our diet of consumerism, television and self-indulgence to care who is pulling the strings at the top?
- Hymns with a military theme used to be a staple in the musical diet of Christians in North America.
- The channel would present a constant diet of obituaries of the ordinary people who die every day.
- The early seventies took him west to San Francisco and a diet of Irish music sessions.
- If she stayed, she would be assigned a steady diet of deportation orders from the criminal division to defend.
- I confess that I've not made it part of my regular blog diet, but I think I may.
- Of course, no one is suggesting that Congress subsist on a regular diet of impeachments.
- It is the staple diet of Courts of Appeal around this country.
- Even the best-fed consumers have only four to five ‘kitchens’ dishing up their regular news diet.
2A special course of food to which one restricts oneself, either to lose weight or for medical reasons. Example sentencesExamples - Overall, these drugs when combined with a diet produce a modest weight loss in 12 months.
- I tried fad diets to lose weight, but none worked, and I kept getting bigger.
- I am twelve years old and I weigh 160 pounds and I have tried a lot of diets to lose weight but I have never been able to stick to one.
- People tend to lose weight quickly on low-carb diets because they restrict their calories to about 1,200 a day.
- Children should never be put on a weight-loss diet without medical advice as this can affect their growth.
- Some people do lose weight on low-carb diets, but the weight loss probably isn't related to blood sugar and insulin levels.
- Your doctor can help you get information about good diets and weight loss programs.
- It's far easier to take precautions before the damage is done, rather than embarking on fad diets to lose the weight that you gained over the festive season.
- Handouts are available in English and Spanish on topics such as weight control, diets to lose weight, and exercise programs.
- It may be more important to stick to a diet and lose weight than to worry about the moral implications of the food you eat.
- How many times have you made a New Year's resolution to go on a diet and lose some weight?
- At no time during the study did the participants complain of being hungry, which is an important consideration when recommending diets to promote weight loss.
- If you think about food and weight and diets and being thin almost all the time, you may have an eating disorder.
- With movie stars and models getting more gaunt each year, many people go on diets to lose weight to make themselves look and feel better.
- If you're on a diet to lose weight, you'll stay away from places that serve fattening food.
- I always say I want to lose weight but the diet only lasts a week and then its out of the window.
- Overweight children should be put on Atkins-style diets to lose weight and prevent life-threatening diseases, a cancer specialist has claimed.
- Short-term diets may help you lose weight, but they are difficult to keep up and even may be unhealthy in the long run.
- He also discourages people from attempting to follow fad diets in order to lose weight.
- I tried countless fad diets to lose weight, but none worked.
Synonyms dietary regime, dietary regimen, dietary programme, restricted diet, crash diet - 2.1as modifier (of food or drink) with reduced fat or sugar content.
Example sentencesExamples - Fruit drink and diet drink consumption increased diabetes risk, but fruit juice intake did not.
- But Ireland is no longer the Mecca for tea brands it once was, with the average office worker as likely to have a diet cola drink, or a cappuccino, as a cup of tea at break time.
- Personally, I hate the after taste of diet drinks and would rather forgo the cola.
- She stayed up in her room for the remainder of the night smoking and drinking the diet soda she had stashed under her bed.
- Stop eating fake food - most everything labeled as diet food or diet beverage.
- Avoid all artificial sweeteners found in diet drinks and some diabetic foods as these are toxic to the liver and can cause hypoglycaemia and fatigue.
- I only drank diet soda, and I started to get more seafood including sushi.
- Children should drink water or diet drinks rather than juice or cola drinks.
- Limit yourself to two caloric beverages, then try sparkling water or diet drinks.
- Worse still, aspartame is contained in most of these diet foods and drinks.
- He has cut them out and drinks water rather than diet drinks, which he doesn't particularly enjoy.
- It found that the more diet soda a person drinks, the greater the chance that he or she will become overweight or obese.
- To fuel her long days, Valerie relied on a diet of fast food and drank six to 12 cans of caffeinated diet soda a day.
- Would you drink a diet cola if you knew it gave lab rats a sugar rush?
- A year after launch, it was America's most popular diet drink, a position it has never relinquished.
- I waste money on all sorts of stuff - cable television, deli sandwiches, diet ginger ale.
- Woman who drank diet soda pop that was artificially sweetened did not show any increased risk and tended to lose weight.
- Despite all of my talking in this post about diet drinks, I am working pretty hard at drinking two to three litres of water a day.
- I personally believe that drinking the water from a young nut is a much healthier choice than drinking some of those diet sodas that are loaded with artificial sweeteners.
- They quiz me about the hottest new diet snack food, offer to be my running buddy and reveal their food obsessions.
verbˈdaɪətˈdīət [no object]Restrict oneself to small amounts or special kinds of food in order to lose weight. Example sentencesExamples - Even if I'm dieting, I will just bring some food with me to the restaurant.
- By 11 she was gaining weight; at 15, distressed by playground taunts, she began dieting.
- Do you realise that before I left for Melbourne and you began dieting, I weighed more than you, even then?
- Thanks to her advice, I've never dieted and I've kept my weight in check.
- If you are no more than a stone or so heavier than you were in your late 20s, you probably shouldn't worry about your weight or try to diet.
- I really can't be bothered to diet, but I do feel I need to lose some weight.
- Very obese people tend not to exercise and are frequently poor, and they spend a disproportionate amount of time dieting.
- I've been told that the weight won't just drop off - I still have to diet and exercise to lose it, it'll just be easier than before.
- If we want a different weight, we diet or body build.
- This time I dieted so the weight came off as I worked on my skills.
- We love food and we hate it; we binge and we diet; we perceive it as both a treat and a threat.
- I eat the same types of food whether I'm dieting for a show or in a gaining phase.
- In 2000 the British Medical Association warned that female TV stars often dieted to appear slim on TV, but ended up too thin because they tended to overcompensate for the effects of television.
- The hard part about this is ensuring you don't lose any hard-earned muscle while you're dieting.
- It says don't diet just eat sensibly and the weight will drop off.
- If a woman, famous or not, decides she needs to diet or have weight loss surgery for her own health or happiness, far be it from me to sit in judgment.
- He believes some obese people cannot lose weight purely by dieting - they are clinically ill.
- Maybe that's why people regain their weight after they diet: they are in better condition to eat more.
- If you are not dieting, losing weight is a serious symptom as are tiredness and weakness.
- Inevitably, you lose focus on your diet and blow up even fatter than when you began dieting.
Synonyms follow a diet, be on a diet, eat sparingly, eat selectively, abstain, fast
Origin Middle English: from Old French diete (noun), dieter (verb), via Latin from Greek diaita ‘a way of life’. nounˈdaɪətˈdīət 1A legislative assembly in certain countries. Example sentencesExamples - Under the ‘October Diploma’ of 1860, the government agreed to call the diets, which would then elect to the Reichsrat.
- The term originated with the protest of the reforming minority at the diet of Spires in 1529 against the catholic majority.
Synonyms legislative assembly, legislature, parliament, congress, senate, synod, council - 1.1historical A regular meeting of the states of a confederation.
- 1.2Scots Law A meeting or session of a court.
Example sentencesExamples - That judgment sympathetically, clearly and concisely deals with a case that must have been very far from the ordinary diet of a judge sitting in the crown court.
Origin Late Middle English: from medieval Latin dieta ‘day's work, wages, etc’, also ‘meeting of councilors’. |