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How to pronounce diet
Say it like this: /ˈdaɪət/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does diet mean?
nounThe 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.
“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.”
adjContaining less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
Having certain traits subtracted.
verbTo modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
“I've been dieting for six months, and I've lost some weight.”
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
“they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.”
To eat; to take one's meals.
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