(n.) One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.
Example Sentences:
(1) With respect to the issue of complexity in perception, the findings clearly contradicted the notion that dieters simply dichotomize food into "good" and "bad" categories.
(2) However, a group of dieters do progress to develop the symptoms and behaviour of eating disorders, so that dieting has been associated with an eight-fold rise in the risk of later eating disorder.
(3) However, Dieter Helm believes these challenges can be overcome with political will.
(4) And the roads are getting very short here.” But Richard Dieter, executive director of the Washington DC-based Death Penalty Information Center, an anti-capital punishment organization, said it was doubtful that Texas would get to a point where a lack of drugs led officials to fully suspend capital punishment.
(5) Of the whole population, 18.1% had spent more than half the time dieting (chronic dieters), 45.2% had dieted 50% of the time or less (periodic dieters), and 36.7% had not dieted during that period (nondieters).
(6) As compared with mean changes in controls, exercisers and dieters each decreased HDL3b and increased HDL2b.
(7) The types were labeled: "finicky eaters," "health-conscious dieters," "diverse diners," and "high-calorie traditionalists."
(8) One combination in the protocol – midazolam, hydromorphone and potassium chloride – is an experimental three-drug method never used in a United States execution, said Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington DC.
(9) Professor Dieter Helm, an energy expert at Oxford University, said: "In the US, shale gas didn't exist in 2004.
(10) I think it is one of the most egregious examples of the problems of having the death penalty that I have seen in 20 years in the field,” said Dieter.
(11) In this report from a recent meeting, Johannes Gerdes and Hans-Dieter Flad describe these studies in the context of a growing awareness of the morphological, phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of the cells.
(12) A study of unsuccessful dieters focused on a group of 50 obese subjects who had previously joined a slimming organisation, but who had dropped out.
(13) In Little Dieter Needs to Fly and its feature-film remake Rescue Dawn (2006), he uses the same slow-motion footage of American bombers dropping napalm on to the Vietnamese countryside.
(14) According to Dieter Rucht of the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin: "This is driving people to the barricades who don't normally go out on to the streets."
(15) This, though, turned out to be only the beginning, and the latest development in the unravelling of the Murdoch myth is like watching a dieter who has eaten one cupcake decide to go the whole hog and snarffle down the whole box.
(16) Anorectics, being "successful" dieters, lose a significant amount of weight; whereas bulimics alternate between binges and purges.
(17) The observation that merely smelling a "preload" is sufficient to produce "counterregulation" in dieters but not in nondieters challenges the explanatory power of the widely held cognitive explanation of experimental counterregulation in preloaded dieters.
(18) The hypothesis that repeat dieters would evidence more family dysfunction relative to the nondieters was not supported.
(19) The fasting state induced in the dieting subjects was comparable to that of eating disorder patients, since the dieters showed a reduction of the body mass index, a decrease in triiodothyronine and an increase in beta-hydroxybutyric acid plasma levels.
(20) The Situation-Based Dieting Self-Efficacy Scale (SDS) measures dieters' beliefs in their abilities to adhere to a diet in eating situations.
Dimeter
Definition:
(a.) Having two poetical measures or meters.
(n.) A verse of two meters.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measurement filters are made of FPP-15 material with dimeter measuring 80 mm.
(2) Further evidence for the dimetic nature of the enzyme was obtained by gel electrophoresis of the enzyme treated with dimethylsuberimidate and sodium dodecyl sulfate.