(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.
Reichstag
Definition:
(n.) The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the close of the session, hundreds of MPs were seen jostling for taxis outside the Reichstag building, impatient to return to their interrupted summer holidays and hoping that they were free of the Greek crisis for the time being.
(2) Among the US supplies on board are spare parts for the station’s environmental control and life support system, backup spacewalk hardware, and crew clothing, all of which are replaceable.” Roscosmos space agency said earlier this month that the ship would also carry a copy of the Soviet Victory Banner: the flag three Red Army soldiers raised over the Reichstag building in Berlin on 1 May 1945.
(3) Foster's has more than 50 projects on site across five continents, including Apple's campus in California and Bloomberg's London headquarters, and has in the past been behind a host of big projects abroad including the Berlin Reichstag, airports at Beijing and Kuwait and the HSBC building in Hong Kong.
(4) And of course at the heart of this, the Reichstag bunker of socialism, is the National Health Service.” At the Conservative political action conference in the same year he said: “This socialist government wastes money like you can’t imagine.
(5) Strolling through the debris, Hans-Peter Koopmann, who manages publicity for the development, points out sights on the horizon: "That's the Reichstag, there's the Victory column, and from this angle you can look straight into Angela Merkel's living room."
(6) He is an artist best known for wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin and for siting thousands of coloured umbrellas across valleys in Japan and America.
(7) A Red Army soldier who appears in a historic photograph helping hoist a hammer-and-sickle flag over the Reichstag in Berlin in 1945 has died, aged 93.
(8) Many buildings in Paris were destroyed by fires started in the fighting that accompanied the 1871 commune, while later the Nazis used the burning of the Reichstag in 1932 – a fire whose cause is still subject to fierce debate – as a pretext to smash civil liberties.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In Germany’s Reichstag politicians across all parties say an EU without Britain is a dreadful prospect.
(10) Those who have the privilege to take advantage of that – it’s obvious that it’s an enriching thing.” Berlin v London Berlin Facebook Twitter Pinterest Norman Foster’s Reichstag dome at dusk.
(11) Several German papers are speculating whether this may be situated in the US embassy, located next to the Brandenburg Gate and close to the Reichstag building where the German parliament holds its sessions.
(12) "It takes me back to when I used to go with my mother to the Reichstag in the days after the war and people were selling watches and coffee beans on the black market in an attempt to survive," she says, giving only her first name, Isabel.
(13) At the Reichstag of Regensburg the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina was declared empire law in 1532.
(14) Right at the heart of the modern government quarter, for example, an EU-directive-lob from the Reichstag, I find the Parlament der Bäume (parliament of trees, see below), a DIY ensemble of memorial stones, graffitied wall remnants and flourishing foliage that’s still run by its (now-octogenarian) founder, the artist and activist Ben Wagin.
(15) And think twice if you are contemplating describing a sneaky political ploy as akin to the Reichstag fire (in which, it is claimed, the Nazis burned down the German parliament building and fingered the communists for the crime), or an official attack as resembling Kristallnacht (the Nazi-led persecution of Jews across Germany in 1938).
(16) The lavish commemorations culminated in a joint session of parliament in the Reichstag, the seat of the lower house, to which the entire 577-strong French National Assembly was invited.
(17) He and his family had fled Germany in 1933 after the Reichstag fire and settled in Denmark, where Brecht wrote the 24 short plays that make up Fear and Misery of the Third Reich.
(18) as the original hammer-and-sickle flag flown from the Reichstag was shot down by German snipers.
(19) Late in 1917 the German Reichstag passed a law obliging all available males between 17 to 60 to work in arms factories.