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# 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 →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x1)
- Running burns more calories than walking. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x3)
- Growing children need plenty of calories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x4)
- Fizzy drinks have lots of calories but few vitamins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/#x5)
- If one biscuit has 50 calories, three have 150. [tree →](https://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Rice, wheat and maize together provide a large share of all the calories people eat in the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/26-food-and-farming-around-the-world/9/)
- [Moving and keeping warm in cool water use lots of energy, and food labels count that energy, often in calories.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/31-energy-what-makes-things-happen/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «calorie» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/calorie/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.