DIET


Meaning of DIET in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ daɪət ]

( diets, dieting, dieted)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

Your diet is the type and range of food that you regularly eat.

It’s never too late to improve your diet.

...a healthy diet rich in fruit and vegetables...

N-VAR

2.

If a doctor puts someone on a diet , he or she makes them eat a special type or range of foods in order to improve their health.

He was put on a diet of milky food.

N-COUNT : usu with supp

3.

If you are on a diet , you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight.

Have you been on a diet? You’ve lost a lot of weight...

N-VAR

4.

If you are dieting , you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight.

I’ve been dieting ever since the birth of my fourth child...

VERB : V

• diet‧ing

She has already lost around two stone through dieting.

N-UNCOUNT

5.

Diet drinks or foods have been specially produced so that they do not contain many calories.

...sugar-free diet drinks.

ADJ : ADJ n

6.

If you are fed on a diet of something, especially something unpleasant or of poor quality, you receive or experience a very large amount of it.

The radio had fed him a diet of pop songs...

N-COUNT : usu N of n

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