Diet vs Ration - What's the difference?
diet | ration |
(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
To supply with a ration; to limit (someone) to a specific allowance of something.
To portion out (especially during a shortage of supply); to limit access to.
To restrict (an activity etc.)
In transitive terms the difference between diet and ration
is that diet is to regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet while ration is to restrict (an activity etc..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 […].
Anagrams
* edit * tide * tied ----ration
English
(wikipedia ration)Verb
(en verb)- We rationed ourselves to three sips of water a day until we were rescued.
- By the third day on the raft, we had to ration our water.
- Our present health care system is rationed only to those who can afford it because of unnecessary high cost, lack of insurance coverage by 47 million people, and exorbitant prescription prices.
