Decrease and Diet

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• A prescribed selection of foods.
• A legislative assembly in certain countries (e. G., Japan. )
• The usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal. )
• The act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods.
  • synonyms: dieting

verb

• Follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons.
  • usage: "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"
• Eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight. .

• (v.i.) To eat; to take one's meals.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
• (n.) Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
• (v.t.) To cause to take food; to feed.
• (v.i.) To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
• (v.t.) To cause to eat and drink sparingly or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
• (n.) Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc.
• (n.) The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan or Hungary.
• (n.) Any of various national or local assemblies;.
• (n.) The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 -- 66).
• (n.) The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government.
• (n.) In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet or Hoftag).
• (n.) The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province.