diet
/ˈdaɪət/ noun A2- The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. · The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
- 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.
- Any habitual intake or consumption. · He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Plural diets
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And content with simple diet;
Morrel bringing a doctor, and the doctor said it was inflammation of the bowels, and ordered him a limited diet.
“From that time he received all who came; he had an excuse for not eating any more; the doctor had put him on a diet.”
Their diet frequently consists of discarded food scraps, fallen fruit, and insects, with earthworms making up a surprisingly large portion of their nutritional intake.
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