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What does diet mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word diet? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
  2. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
  3. By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.
  4. (countable, usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
  2. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
  3. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
Adjective
  1. (food) Containing lower-than-normal amounts of fat, salt, sugar, and/or calories, or claimed to have such.
  2. (figuratively) Having the questionable traits subtracted.
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