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# calorie

noun (a calorie, calories)

«calorie» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A calorie is a unit used to measure how much energy food gives your body. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#m1)
2. In science, a calorie is a small unit of heat energy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#m2)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x1)
- Running burns more calories than walking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x2)
- Look at the label to see how many calories are in a serving. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x3)
- Growing children need plenty of calories. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x4)
- Fizzy drinks have lots of calories but few vitamins. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x5)
- If one biscuit has 50 calories, three have 150. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x6)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «calorie» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«calorie» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/calorie.html) on Mova free.