The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Used in a Sentence
diet
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for diet.
Editorial note
Each bottle is 400 calories, so you'd need five per day, assuming a 2000 calorie diet.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of diet gathered in one view.
Alternative letter-case form of diet (“formal deliberative assembly”). [The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.]
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for diet.
noun
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of diet (“formal deliberative assembly”). [The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.]
noun
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink choices, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
noun
(by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
Example sentences
Each bottle is 400 calories, so you'd need five per day, assuming a 2000 calorie diet.
The last few hiccups with Mozilla are them being the Diet Coke of Evil in comparison.
The same can be said for soylent and probably every other diet fad out there.
Some studies indicate that eating a heavily soy based diet leads to increased estrogen levels.
Soylent is a step up if you currently have an unhealthy diet though, and I'd wager you could make the same argument about an unhealthy diet missing something vital.
But that is definitely not a diet of most people even in developed, rich countries.
They have 0g of cholesterol yet it's an important part of a healthy diet.
The best thing I ever did to improve my intellectual diet was get a subscription to the New Yorker.
If anything, I don't understand the worries people have about replacing 95% of their entire diet with a well-engineered food.
Even though the founder does that, he has explained many times that he doesn't expect most people to replace their entire diet with Soylent.
I'm still sure the eskimo diet is far from optimal in terms of health and fitness.
We also have people constantly skipping meals, for reasons other than diet.
Quote examples
Most diet shakes are still in the "fat is bad" mindset, and almost all the calories come from simple carbohydrates.
For any of these "replacements" to be valid they need to do 2 things a) develop a full diet regime with supplementary real food mixed in like week on week off or something, b) add actual non-liquid food products.
Eating a liquid diet even for a couple of weeks will really screw you up, humans didn't evolved to eat only liquid food heck the standing recommendation for babies is to actually skip or cut down the period of "baby food" for as much as possible.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use diet in a sentence?
Each bottle is 400 calories, so you'd need five per day, assuming a 2000 calorie diet.
What does diet mean?
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
What part of speech is diet?
diet is commonly used as noun.