Diet vs. Duet: What's the Difference?
Diet and Duet Definitions
Diet
The usual food and drink of a person or animal.
Duet
A composition for two voices or two instruments.
Diet
A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.
Duet
A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.
Diet
Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly
Subsisted on a diet of detective novels during his vacation.
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Duet
A pair.
Diet
A national or local legislative assembly in certain countries, such as Japan.
Duet
To perform a duet.
Diet
A formal general assembly of the princes or estates of the Holy Roman Empire.
Duet
(music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).
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Diet
Of or relating to a food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person or an animal
The diet industry.
Duet
(music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
Diet
Having fewer calories.
Duet
A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.
Diet
Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.
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Duet
(intransitive) To perform a duet.
Diet
Designed to reduce or suppress the appetite
Diet pills.
Diet drugs.
Duet
To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.
Diet
To eat and drink according to a regulated system, especially so as to lose weight or control a medical condition.
Duet
(transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.
Diet
To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.
Duet
(transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.
Diet
The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.
The diet of the giant panda consists mainly of bamboo.
Duet
A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.
Diet
(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
Duet
Two items of the same kind
Diet
(by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
He's been reading a steady diet of nonfiction for the last several years.
Duet
Two performers or singers who perform together
Diet
(usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
They were given representation of some important diet committees.
The National Diet of Japan
Duet
A pair who associate with one another;
The engaged couple
An inseparable twosome
Diet
(Scotland) A session of exams
Duet
A musical composition for two performers
Diet
The proceedings under a criminal libel.
Duet
(ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)
Diet
(Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
A diet of worship
Diet
(of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.
Diet soda
Diet
Having certain traits subtracted.
You folks reduce it to the bible only as being authoritative, impoverishing the faith. "Christianity Lite", diet Christianity for those who can't handle the Whole Meal.
Diet
(transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.
Diet
(intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
I've been dieting for six months, and have lost some weight.
Diet
(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
Diet
To cause to take food; to feed.
Diet
Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
Diet
A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
To fast like one that takes diet.
Diet
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.
Diet
To cause to take food; to feed.
Diet
To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
She diets him with fasting every day.
Diet
To eat; to take one's meals.
Let him . . . diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth.
Diet
To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
Diet
A prescribed selection of foods
Diet
A legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
Diet
The usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)
Diet
The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)
Diet
Follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons;
He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet
Diet
Eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight
