(n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
(n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
(v. t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
(v. t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
(v. i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
(v. i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
(n.) A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) Results show diet, self-control and parts of insulin-therapy to be problematic treatment components.
(3) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(5) Male weanling Sprague Dawley rats were depleted on a low AIN-76A formulated basal diet for 21 days.
(6) Diet consumption decreased as the concentration of ethanol increased in the diet.
(7) There were few significant differences between high polyunsaturated (safflower oil) and saturated fat (lard) diet groups.
(8) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(9) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(10) Rachitic bone lesions were only partially corrected by the high-Ca diet.
(11) This study examined the association between diet composition, particularly dietary fat intake, and body-fat percentage in 205 adult females.
(12) Furthermore, the effect of immunization was examined in monkeys previously given fluoride in their diet and which had developed a low incidence of dental caries when offered a human type of diet containing about 15 per cent sucrose.
(13) In our experience, body weight, insulin requirements, glycemic control, and serum lipids are well managed by such diets for up to 10 years of follow-up.
(14) One week after azoxymethane injection, animals were transferred to their respective experimental diets containing piroxicam and DFMO.
(15) Kidney DAAO activity was significantly higher in chicks fed either the DL-AA or .5 DL-AA diet as compared with the L-AA diet.
(16) When the two most toxic isolates (diets) were diluted, survival time increased but severe growth suppression was evident.
(17) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
(18) We evaluated the effect of glycated albumin on phenytoin protein binding in 36 elderly (age range 63-94 yrs) patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) under diet management.
(19) At 24 days of age, the pups of HP, M and M-F diet groups, only gained 48%, 30% and 18% respectively, in their body weight, whereas the body-length parameters (LNC and LNRC) showed a reduction of 20%, 35%, and 45%, respectively for the same diet groups.
(20) ACTH also suppressed aldosterone biosynthesis in rats kept on a sodium-deficient diet.
Edit
Definition:
(v. t.) To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
(2) In contrast, edited versions of CYb, COII, and COIII RNAs were not cleaved within the editing domains.
(3) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
(4) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(5) Subscribers to the paper's print and digital editions also now contribute to half the volume of its total sales.
(6) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(7) The English edition of the CIM-O has just been published, and its version in French is in the progress of preparation.
(8) Once outside the body they can be purified, expanded in culture, and checked via genome sequencing to ensure the editing has been successful.
(9) Last week, Park offered a public apology after acknowledging Choi had edited some of her speeches and provided help with public relations, but South Korea’s media have speculated Choi played a much larger, secret role in government affairs.
(10) Analysis of the region between nucleotides 6200 and 6900 of the cDNA did not detect any prevalent alternate editing sites.
(11) News International executives are also understood to have been testing the water for a potentially swift launch of a Sunday edition of the Sun as a replacement for NoW, which published the final issue in its 168-year history on Sunday, in conversations with advertisers and media buyers.
(12) The conversation between the two men, printed in Monday's edition of Wprost news magazine , reveals the extent of the fallout between Poland and the UK over Cameron's proposals to change EU migrants' access to benefits.
(13) Quantitation of the ratio of apoB-48 to apoB-100 mRNA at the different time points showed that RNA editing became highly competent prenatally on Day 19 of gestation in the small intestine, but postnatally on Day 24 after birth in the liver.
(14) We have Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris coming to those platforms this December, and Tomb Raider: The Definitive Edition is available on PS4.” However, there is still some slight ambiguity about whether the deal is for Winter 2015 only.
(15) • This is an edited extract from Feminism & Men by Nikki van der Gaag , published by Zed Books.
(16) It’s a super-addictive yet deeply challenging game of resource management, based on a popular PC game – complete with its expansion edition.
(17) The article was further amended on 9 October 2012 to correct an editing error that attributed a quote saying that the film of Midnight's Children "slathers on the chutney" to its director, rather than to the Press Trust of India.
(18) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
(19) But the Tories edited out a crucial final sentence in which Balls told BBC Radio Leeds on 9 January : “But I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.” Labour seized on the Tory editing of the Balls interview to accuse the Tories of misleading people to defend their refusal to tackle tax avoidance.
(20) Perhaps he modified his language for the NY Times reporter, but the more likely explanation is that his swearing added nothing and was therefore omitted by the writer or edited out; in America, even in liberal New York, profanities still need to be argued into print.