meaning of diet
1. Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
2. A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
3. To cause to take food; to feed.
4. To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
5. To eat; to take ones meals.
6. To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
7. A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
8. the act of restricting your food intake or your intake of particular foods
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