diet daiot [n C] when you eat less food because you want to get thinner: I've tried lots of diets but none of them work. be on a diet (=be eating less food) Do you want some dessert, or are you still on a diet?
go on a diet (=start a diet) As soon as Christmas is over, I'm going on a diet. diet [и II to eat less food in order to get thinner: She first started dieting when she was only 12.
fast /fa:st||faest/ [и I) to stop eating food for a fixed period of time, especially for religious reasons: Muslims fast during Ramadan, fast In C] At the end of their fast, the people have a big party to celebrate.
pick at sth /'pjк set (sth), [phrasa/ verb T] to eat only a small part of a meal, especially because you feel ill or unhappy: I set picking at my dinner, wishing I was somewhere else.
hardly touch sth /,ha:rdli utj (sth)/ to
eat almost none of your meaclass="underline" Rachel hardly touched her dinner ~ is she okay?\ Don't you like the pudding? You've hardly touched it.
when you have eaten enough food
have had enough /hsv haed I'nAf/ to
have eaten enough food, so that you do not want any more: "Would you like some dessert?""No thanks, I've had enough." I Leave the rest if you've had enough.
In British English, don't say 'eat breakfast', 'eat lunch' etc. Say have breakfast, have lunch etc.
EAT
Qbe Jull /bi: Tul/ spoken if you are full, you have eaten so much food that you cannot eat any more: 'Would you like some more pie?" "No fhan/cs, I'm full."
someone who eats too much
greedy /'gri:di/ [adjl especially British someone who is greedy eats too much: Don't be greedy - leave some cake for everyone else.
greedy - greedier - greediest greedily [adu] The children rushed to the table and started eating greedily.
Qpig /pig [n C] spoken informal a rude word for describing someone who eats too much: What a pig! He ate that whole box of chocolates himself.
EDGE
the part of something that is furthest from its centre
see also side, middle
edge /ed^; [n C| the part of something that is nearest to its outside or end: The plates had blue lines around the edges. + of Don't go too near the edge of the
water.
on the edge Cof) They live in a little house on the edge of town.
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side /said/ [n CI the part of an object that is near its left or right edge: The stage was lit from the side.
le/t-hand/right-hand side of sth (=on the left or right) Roy's seat was on the left- hand side of the plane.
The edge of an object is where it ends or begins. The side of an object is along one of its lengths.
Use the edge of the road/pool/lake etc about activities that happen near the road, pool, lake etc but not in it: We stood at the edge of the lake and watched the sunset. Use the side of the road/pool/ lake etc about things that happen in the road, pool, lake etc, but close to the edge of it: She swam to the side of the pool.
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the outskirts /di: 'autskx'ts/ [n plural] the areas of a city furthest away from the centre
+ of By the time we reached the outskirts of the city it was already dark. on the outskirts (of) Her parents lived in a big house on the outskirts of Seoul.
boundary /'baond?ri/ [n C] the official line that marks the edge of an area of land, for example a farm or part of a country + of She had never gone beyond the boundaries of the city, t The farmer put up a high fence to mark the boundary of his land.
+ between The Mississippi River forms the boundary between Tennessee and Arkansas.
plural boundaries
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margin /'ma:rd3j>n/ [n C] the part where nothing is written or printed at the side of a page: Leave a two centimetre margin on the left side of the page.
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Words like school nursery; and
university can be used as uncountable nouns, to mean the time that you spend there: 1 missed a lot of school because of illness. I College starts next week.
school
School ,'skuil/ In C/U] a place where children go to learn and be taught, up to the age of 18: My mother is a teacher at the local school. I The nearest school was 10 miles away. I I hate school! to/from school 80% of parents take their children to school by car. state school British public school american (=a school that is paid for by the government)
Be careful with the phrase public schooclass="underline" in the US, this means a school that is paid for by the government and is available to atl children; in Britain, it means one of a number of expensive private schools which parents must pay for.
schools for very young children
nursery British nursery school amer- (can /'n3:rs^i, пз:г5^п ,skuil/ [n C/U] a place where children aged between about two and five go for a few hours each day to play and do activities with other children
plural nurseries
kindergarten /'kind3rga:rt3n/ |n C/U] in American English, the name of the first year of school for children aged five: in British English, another name for a nursery for children aged four or five
pre-school /'pri: sku:l [n C/U] american a school for children aged between about two and five: a plan to provide preschool for all children
В schools for children
below the age of 12
primary school /praimari ,sku:l Jn
C/U] in Britain, a school for children aged between five and eleven; primary schools are usually divided into the infant school or the infants (=for children aged five to seven) and the junior school or the juniors (=for children aged seven to eleven)
elementary school/grade school
/el^'menUri ,sku:l, 'greid ,skuil/ [n C/U] in the US, a school for children aged between five and eleven