cram vs diet

cram

verb
  • To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself. 

  • To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. 

  • To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. 

  • To study hard; to swot. 

  • To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination. 

noun
  • A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. 

  • Information hastily memorized. 

  • A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information. 

  • The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). 

  • A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue. 

diet

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

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

noun
  • A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly. 

  • Any habitual intake or consumption. 

  • A session of exams 

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

  • The proceedings under a criminal libel. 

  • A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland. 

  • The food and beverage a person or animal consumes. 

adj
  • Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such. 

  • Having certain traits subtracted. 

How often have the words cram and diet occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )