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# diet

«diet» in Mova's school dictionary: **all the food and drink you usually eat and drink: a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (diet, diets); verb (diet, diets, dieted, dieting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your diet is all the food and drink you usually eat and drink: a healthy diet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#m1)

2) A diet is a special plan of eating, for health or to lose weight: a gluten-free diet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#m2)

3) The diet of an animal is what it naturally eats: a panda's diet is mostly bamboo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#m3)

4) To diet means to eat less or eat certain foods to lose weight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#m4)

5) A diet can also mean a formal meeting of a country's lawmakers or representatives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health lessons, a balanced diet includes fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates (bread, rice, pasta), proteins (meat, fish, beans, eggs), some dairy, a little fat and lots of water; the «eatwell plate» or «food pyramid» shows proportions. Animals are grouped by diet: herbivores (plants), carnivores (meat), omnivores (both). Some people follow diets because of allergies, religion or beliefs (vegetarian, halal, kosher). Phrases: balanced diet, healthy diet, go on a diet, special diet, diet drink.

### examples

- A balanced diet keeps your body healthy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x1)
- Koalas have a diet of eucalyptus leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x2)
- Sharks are carnivores — their diet is meat and fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x3)
- My cousin has a gluten-free diet because of an illness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x4)
- Vegetarians have a diet without meat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x5)
- Too much sugar in your diet is bad for your teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x6)
- Mum is on a diet before the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x7)
- In Roeskilde, too, the members of the Danish Diet assemble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/#x8)

### note

Countable: diets. Trap: «diet» first means everything you eat, not only eating less. Growing children should not go on weight-loss diets without a doctor. «Diet» drinks have sweeteners instead of sugar.

### In the corpora

- [Children do not need diets unless a doctor says so; bots may give unsuitable food and body advice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/8/)
- [Anteaters get a specially made mushy mix that copies an ant diet, because a zoo cannot collect enough wild ants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/111-feeding-times-and-the-zoo-kitchen/12/)
- [Drop Mentos into a bottle of diet cola (outside, with an adult, standing well back) and a fountain shoots up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola/4/)
- [One can of ordinary cola has about seven teaspoons of sugar; diet drinks use sweeteners with almost no sugar.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/19-fizzy-drinks-mentos-and-cola/18/)
- [Farm animals have their own diet, and the wrong food given over a fence can make them very ill.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/67-allergies-horses-and-farm-animals/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «diet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/diet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.