Definitions for Banting

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Banting Ban·ting

Spelling: [ban-ting]

IPA: /ˈbæn tɪŋ/

Banting is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in Banting (abginnt).

Definitions for Banting

noun

1. Sir Frederick Grant, 1891–1941, Canadian physician: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize 1923.
2. (often lowercase) Bantingism.
3. a wild ox, Bos banteng (javanicus), of southeastern Asia and the Malay Archipelago, resembling the domestic cow: now greatly reduced in number.

verb (used without object)

1. to lose weight by practicing Bantingism.

Origin of Banting

First recorded in 1860-65; back formation from Banting

Examples for Banting

Banting I did without waiting for his book; but if it comes I will perhaps squeeze something out of it.

As for Lorna, she's been Banting in preparation; she hardly took any dinner.

Not so bad, after all, this Banting at Marienbad, he reflected.

We were not long alone; the next day Mr. Chambers arrived from Banting with a party of seven baptized Dyaks.

Banting, bant′ing, n. a system of diet for reducing superfluous fat.

She had had no previous experience with "Banting" of any sort.

The visit to Banting had another object besides the mutual friendship of the converts.

I know—and I am Banting—and exercising, and rolling downstairs and all that.

He married Buda's sister, who walked to Banting for instruction.

"Twenty-seven fifty," said a woman whom three years of Banting would still have left too fat to get into it.