diet vs pall

diet

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. 

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

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

pall

noun
  • Something that covers or surrounds like a cloak; in particular, a cloud of dust, smoke, etc., or a feeling of fear, gloom, or suspicion. 

  • A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side, used to cover the chalice during the Eucharist. 

  • A charge representing an archbishop's pallium, having the form of the letter Y charged with crosses. 

  • Especially in Roman Catholicism: a pallium (“liturgical vestment worn over the chasuble”). 

  • A heavy cloth laid over a coffin or tomb; a shroud laid over a corpse. 

verb
  • To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. 

  • To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. 

  • To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. 

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