As verbs the difference between diet and dieth
is that
diet is to regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet while
dieth is archaic third-person singular of die.
As a noun diet
is (
food a person or animal consumes)The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
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
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dieth English
Verb
( head)
(die)
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- They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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