Diet Definition–noun | 1. | food and drink considered in terms of its qualities, composition, and its effects on health: Milk is a wholesome article of diet. |
| 2. | a particular selection of food, esp. as designed or prescribed to improve a person's physical condition or to prevent or treat a disease: a diet low in sugar. |
| 3. | such a selection or a limitation on the amount a person eats for reducing weight: No pie for me, I'm on a diet. |
| 4. | the foods eaten, as by a particular person or group: The native diet consists of fish and fruit. |
| 5. | food or feed habitually eaten or provided: The rabbits were fed a diet of carrots and lettuce. |
| 6. | anything that is habitually provided or partaken of: Television has given us a steady diet of game shows and soap operas. |
–verb (used with object) | 7. | to regulate the food of, esp. in order to improve the physical condition. |
–verb (used without object) | 9. | to select or limit the food one eats to improve one's physical condition or to lose weight: I've dieted all month and lost only one pound. |
| 10. | to eat or feed according to the requirements of a diet. |
–adjective | 11. | suitable for consumption with a weight-reduction diet; dietetic: diet
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Drug Definition–noun | 1. | Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being. |
| 2. | (in federal law) | a. | any substance recognized in the official pharmacopoeia or formulary of the nation. |
| b. | any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals. |
| c. | any article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals. |
| d. | any substance intended for use as a component of such a drug, but not a device or a part of a device. |
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| 3. | a habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, esp. a narcotic. |
| 4. | drugs, |
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a. | chemical substances prepared and sold as pharmaceutical items, either by prescription or over the counter. |
| b. | personal hygienic items sold in a drugstore, as toothpaste, mouthwash, etc. |
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| 5. | Obsolete. any ingredient used in chemistry, pharmacy, dyeing, or the like. |
–verb (used with object) | 6. | to administer a medicinal drug to. |
| 7. | to stupefy or poison with a drug. |
| 8. | to mix (food or drink) with a drug, esp. a stupefying, narcotic, or poisonous drug. |
| 9. | to administer anything nauseous to. |
—Verb phrase| 10. | drug up, to take a narcotic drug: The addict prowled about for a place to drug up. |
—Idiom| 11. | drug on the market, a commodity that is overabundant or in excess of demand in the market. Also, drug in the market. |
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