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 soft drinks. | |
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Plan Definition–noun | 1. | a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans. | | 2. | a design or scheme of arrangement: an elaborate plan for seating guests. | | 3. | a specific project or definite purpose: plans for the future. | | 4. | Also called plan view. a drawing made to scale to represent the top view or a horizontal section of a structure or a machine, as a floor layout of a building. | | 5. | a representation of a thing drawn on a plane, as a map or diagram: a plan of the dock area. | | 6. | (in perspective drawing) one of several planes in front of a represented object, and perpendicular to the line between the object and the eye. | | 7. | a formal program for specified benefits, needs, etc.: a pension plan. | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to arrange a method or scheme beforehand for (any work, enterprise, or proceeding): to plan a new recreation center. | | 9. | to make plans for: to plan one's vacation. | | 10. | to draw or make a diagram or layout of, as a building. | –verb (used without object) | 11. | to make plans: to plan ahead; to plan for one's retirement. | |
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