diet
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- //ˈdaɪət//
- //ˈdiːət//
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
sostantivo
- 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.
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A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
He's been on a diet since he found out that he has coronary atherosclerosis.
The doctor put me on a low-salt diet.
My jeans are too tight, so I'm going on a diet.
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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.
Etimologia
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).
aggettivo
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Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
diet soda
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.
Diet Light (Pizarro 724; snacks S2-7; 9:30am-10pm) This perennially busy place serves not-very-diet, but yummy nonetheless, ice cream (S2 to S5) and whopping servings of mixed fruit (S3) – with ice cream.
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figuratoHaving certain 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.
verbo
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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.
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desuetoTo regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
When all signs of effusion, dulness, pain, œgophony, and cough had disappeared he was dieted, stimulated, and tonicked.
As illustrating the belief that the Baptism by Blood was accompanied by a real regeneration of the devotee, Frazer quotes an ancient writer who says that for some time after the ceremony the fiction of a new birth was kept up by dieting the devotee on milk, like a new-born babe.
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obsoletoTo eat; to take one's meals.
Let him[…]diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
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obsoletoTo cause to take food; to feed.
But partly led to diet my revenge […].
Etimologia
From Middle English dieten, dyeten, diȝeten, from Old French dïeter and Medieval Latin diētāre.
sostantivo
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A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
the National Diet of Japan
They were given representation in some important diet committees.
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A session of exams.
Normally the diet begins towards the end of April.
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A criminal proceeding in court.
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A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
a diet of worship
Etimologia
From Middle English diet, dyet, from Old French diete, from Medieval Latin diēta, diaeta (“a public assembly; set day of trial; a day's journey”), from Ancient Greek δῐ́αιτα (dĭ́aita, “way of living, living space; decision, judgement”), influenced by Latin diēs (“day”).
Forme
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- diets
- passato
- dieted
- participio passato
- dieted
- participio presente
- dieting
- 3ª persona singolare
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diet · The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Dietrich · A surname from German.differ · Not to have the same traits or characteristics; to be unalike…difference · The quality of being different.