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Diet vs Synod - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between diet and synod

is that diet is (food a person or animal consumes)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes while synod is an ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

As a verb diet

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

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 ----

    synod

    English

    (wikipedia synod)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
  • An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the , or a mid-level division ((middle judicatory), district) as in the (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
  • An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It hath in solemn synods been decreed.
  • * Dryden
    • Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above.
  • (astronomy) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
    • (Milton)

    Usage notes

    Usage differs between different churches – see .

    Derived terms

    * general synod * synodal * synodic

    Hypernyms

    * council

    Anagrams

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