calorie

«calorie» in Mova's school dictionary: a unit used to measure how much energy food gives your body — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a calorie, calories)

meaning for a pupil

1) A calorie is a unit used to measure how much energy food gives your body. tree →

2) In science, a calorie is a small unit of heat energy. tree →

sense in the lessons

In health and food lessons calories show the energy in food on labels (often as kcal, «kilocalories»); the body uses energy to move, grow and keep warm. Children need enough calories to grow; pupils learn about balance, not counting every calorie. In maths, food labels are used for problems with totals and comparisons.

examples

• A banana has about 100 calories. tree →
• Running burns more calories than walking. tree →
• Look at the label to see how many calories are in a serving. tree →
• Growing children need plenty of calories. tree →
• Fizzy drinks have lots of calories but few vitamins. tree →
• If one biscuit has 50 calories, three have 150. tree →

note

Countable: calories. Food labels often say «kcal»; in everyday talk people call kilocalories «calories». Some countries also use kilojoules (kJ), for example Australia and New Zealand. Calories are not bad: you need them to live.

In the corpora

• Rice, wheat and maize together provide a large share of all the calories people eat in the world.
• Moving and keeping warm in cool water use lots of energy, and food labels count that energy, often in calories.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «calorie» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.