diet 是什么意思？diet 的含义 - 柯林高阶英语学习词典 - 在线工具

Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense diets , present participle dieting , past tense, past participle dieted

1. variable noun

Your diet is the type and range of food that you regularly eat.

It's never too late to improve your diet.

...a healthy diet rich in fruit and vegetables.

Poor diet and excess smoking will seriously damage the health of your hair.

2. countable noun

If a doctor puts someone on a diet, he or she makes them eat a special type or range of foods in order to improve their health.

He was put on a diet of milky food. [+ of]

...a special diet for children with high cholesterol.

3. variable noun

If you are on a diet, you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight.

Have you been on a diet? You've lost a lot of weight.

Diet and exercise will alter your shape.

I've only lost sixteen pounds since I started this diet.

Synonyms: fast, regime, abstinence, regimen More Synonyms of diet

4. verb

If you are dieting, you eat special kinds of food or you eat less food than usual because you are trying to lose weight.

I've been dieting ever since the birth of my fourth child. [VERB]

Most of us have dieted at some time in our lives. [VERB]

Synonyms: slim, fast, be on a diet, lose weight More Synonyms of diet

dieting uncountable noun

She has already lost around two stone through dieting.

5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]

Diet drinks or foods have been specially produced so that they do not contain many calories.

...sugar-free diet drinks.

...diet margarine.

6. countable noun

If you are fed on a diet of something, especially something unpleasant or of poor quality, you receive or experience a very large amount of it.

The radio had fed him a diet of pop songs. [+ of]

People are rejecting this constant diet of despair.

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