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low-fat diet(medicine)
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diet noun2. LME
[medieval Latin dieta day's journey, allowance, work, wages, assoc. with Latin dies day. In senses 1 & 2 cf. Old & mod. French journee.]
A day's journey; an excursion. Chiefly Scot. LME-M17.
A meeting formally arranged for discussion or transaction of national or international business; a conference, a congress. LME.
b. spec. The regular meeting of the estates of a realm or confederation; esp. any of various foreign legislative assemblies, e.g. the former German Reichstag. M16.
H. A. L. Fisher Luther was summoned to Worms to attend upon the young Emperor and his first Diet.
A session or sitting of a court etc. on an appointed day; a single session of any assembly occupying (a part of) one day. Scot. L15.
desert the diet: see DESERT verb 2a.
An appointed date or time; spec. the day on which a party in a legal case is cited to appear in court. Scot. M16.
The metal scraped or cut from gold and silver assayed day by day at the Mint, and retained for the purpose of trial. E18.