See Also: Calorie(medicine)
calorie(dictionary)
calorie(encyclopedia)
calorie(dictionary)
Calorie(health)
mean calorie(medicine)
small calorie(medicine)
gram calorie(medicine)
low-calorie diet(medicine)
large calorie(medicine)

calorie (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: Latin calor 'heat']
a unit for measuring the amount of energy that food will produce
::An average potato has about 90 calories.
::a calorie-controlled diet
low-calorie/high-calorie
::a low-calorie snack
::Do you need to burn off a few calories (=lose some weight by exercising) ?
::My wife convinced me to finally start counting calories (=control my weight by being careful about what I eat) .
technical the amount of heat that is needed to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius. It is used as a unit for measuring energy.
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