Diet vs Convention - What's the difference?

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Diet is a related term of convention.

As an abbreviation diet

is (microbiology).

As a noun convention is

a meeting or gathering.

diet

English

(wikipedia diet)

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(en noun)

(senseid)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.

(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

By extension, any habitual intake or consumption.

He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.

(countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

Derived terms

* dietarian * dietary * dieter * dietetics

Verb

(en verb)

To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

*, I.iii.1.2:

they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.

* Spenser

She diets him with fasting every day.

To 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 have lost some weight.

(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.

* Francis Bacon

Let himdiet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.

(obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.

* Othello

But partly led to diet my revenge […].

Anagrams

* edit * tide * tied ----

convention

English

(wikipedia convention)

Noun

(en noun)

A meeting or gathering.

The convention was held in Geneva.

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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates

''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution

The convening of a formal meeting

A formal agreement, contract or pact

(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.

''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations

A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.

In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)

''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol

The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.

Derived terms

* by convention * coding conventions * conventional, conventionally * conventionalize * conventioneer * convention centre, convention center * naming convention * pictorial convention * trade convention