Diet vs. Duet — What's the Difference?

The usual food and drink of a person or animal.

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists. It differs from a harmony, as the performers take turns performing a solo section rather than performing simultaneously.

A regulated selection of foods, as for medical reasons or cosmetic weight loss.

A performance by two singers, instrumentalists, or dancers

Something used, enjoyed, or provided regularly

Perform a duet

A national or local legislative assembly in certain countries, such as Japan.

A composition for two voices or two instruments.

A formal general assembly of the princes or estates of the Holy Roman Empire.

A group of two singers or two instrumentalists.

Of or relating to a food regimen designed to promote weight loss in a person or an animal

A pair.

Having fewer calories.

To perform a duet.

Sweetened with a noncaloric sugar substitute.

(music) A musical composition in two parts, each performed by a single voice (singer, instrument or univoce ensemble).

Designed to reduce or suppress the appetite

(music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.

To eat and drink according to a regulated system, especially so as to lose weight or control a medical condition.

A pair or couple, especially one that is harmonious or elegant.

To regulate or prescribe food and drink for.

(intransitive) To perform a duet.

The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

To communicate (warnings, mating calls, etc.) through song.

(countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.

(transitive) To perform (sing, play, etc.) as a duet.

(by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.

(transitive) (of two people) To say at the same time, to chorus.

(usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.

A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

(Scotland) A session of exams

Two items of the same kind

The proceedings under a criminal libel.

Two performers or singers who perform together

(Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.

A pair who associate with one another;

(of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

A musical composition for two performers

Having certain traits subtracted.

(ballet) a dance for two people (usually a ballerina and a danseur noble)

(transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

(intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.

(obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.

To cause to take food; to feed.

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

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.

To cause to take food; to feed.

To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

To eat; to take one's meals.

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

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)

Follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons;

Eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight