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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
diet1
▶noun
- 1 the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.
- 2 a special course of food to which a person restricts themselves to lose weight or for medical reasons.
■ [as modifier] (of food or drink) with reduced fat or sugar content.
– derivatives
dietary adjective,
dieter noun.
dietary adjective,
dieter noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. diete (n.), dieter (v.), via L. from Gk diaita ‘a way of life’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
diet2
▶noun
- 1 a legislative assembly in certain countries.
■ historical a regular meeting of the states of a confederation.
- 2 Scots Law a meeting or session of a court.
– origin ME: from med. L. dieta ‘day's work, wages’.
'diet' also found in these Oxford entries:
arachidonic acid
- arginine
- Atkins diet
- Ayurveda
- balance
- carotene
- deficiency disease
- deficient
- dietetic
- dietetics
- dietitian
- elimination diet
- essential
- healthy
- histidine
- isoleucine
- jalfrezi
- leucine
- linoleic acid
- locavore
- lysine
- macrobiotic
- methionine
- naturopathy
- pellagra
- phenylalanine
- protein
- regimen
- starch
- threonine
- train
- tryptophan
- valine
- vitamin
- weight-watcher
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a diet/diets?
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believe their own children's level of physical activity and diet rates an A grade
Diet
diet / dietary food
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diet=food?
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do a diet or go on a diet
either to an exercise and diet program......
expression about diet
fall off the cathin's diet
fed a steady diet of..
fish diet
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Harry didn't look well since he has hone [ gone ] on a diet.
I am going (to go) on a diet.
I went on a diet where you were...
intellectual diet
make drastic/dramatic changes in your diet
Obesity is bound up with <a, the, nothing> daily diet.
on/following a diet
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a diet/diets?
a healthy addition to the settlers' diet
an unhealthy diet
believe their own children's level of physical activity and diet rates an A grade
Diet
diet / dietary food
diet conscious
diet stress
diet=food?
dieted/ on a diet
do a diet or go on a diet
either to an exercise and diet program......
expression about diet
fall off the cathin's diet
fed a steady diet of..
fish diet
foods/diet
from/out diet food
Harry didn't look well since he has hone [ gone ] on a diet.
I am going (to go) on a diet.
I went on a diet where you were...
intellectual diet
make drastic/dramatic changes in your diet
Obesity is bound up with <a, the, nothing> daily diet.
on/following a diet
poor diet
pull out of his diet
put her on a diet
restricted /strict diet
more...
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