Dictionary Entry
diet
diet is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
- 2noun
A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to take food; to feed.
- 4transitive verb
To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
- 5intransitive verb
To eat; to take one's meals.
- 6intransitive verb
To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
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- 9noun
the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)
- 10noun
a prescribed selection of foods
- 11noun
a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
- 12verb
eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight
- 13verb
follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
"He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"
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