Snack vs Diet - What's the difference?
snack | diet |
(obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
* Alexander Pope
(senseid)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
(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.
(countable) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
*, I.iii.1.2:
* Spenser
To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To cause to take food; to feed.
* Othello
In obsolete terms the difference between snack and diet
is that snack is a share; a part or portion while diet is to eat; to take one's meals.As nouns the difference between snack and diet
is that snack is a light meal while diet is (food a person or animal consumes)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.As verbs the difference between snack and diet
is that snack is to eat a light meal while diet is to regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.snack
English
Etymology 1
Derived terms
* snack bar * snack food * snacker * snackette * snackery * snackless * snackySee also
* munchiesDerived terms
* snack downEtymology 2
See snatch (transitive verb).Noun
(en noun)- At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks ."
Anagrams
* ----diet
English
(wikipedia diet)Alternative forms
* (rare)Noun
(en noun)- The diet of the Giant Panda consists mainly of bamboo.
- He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Derived terms
* dietarian * dietary * dieter * dieteticsVerb
(en verb)- they will diet themselves, feed and live alone.
- She diets him with fasting every day.
- I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
- Let himdiet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he travelleth.
- But partly led to diet my revenge […].