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calories

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for calories.

Editorial note

Via: Big Mac: 530 calories Medium Fries: 340 calories Medium Drink: 200 Calories In order for your maths to work each meal has to cost $8.94.

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Quick take

"Calories" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of calories gathered in one view.

N

"Calories" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for calories.

N

"Calories" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series.

Example sentences

1

Via: Big Mac: 530 calories Medium Fries: 340 calories Medium Drink: 200 Calories In order for your maths to work each meal has to cost $8.94.

2

It's a measly 43 calories per slice, with me maxing out at 4 slices on my best days.

3

I divided 2000 calories by the calories in a Big Mac and multiplied by the average price of a Big Mac in the US in July 2015.

4

A meal of Soylent is 679 calories with exactly a third of all your daily requirements.

5

Each bottle is 400 calories, so you'd need five per day, assuming a 2000 calorie diet.

6

The rule in question (3500 calories deficit results in one pound of weight loss) is mostly true, even if oversimplified.

7

According to McDonald's own nutritional information [1], you'd consume 1,070 calories per medium meal.

8

At the 400 kcal serving size, the 28 meal box of powder would become 35 servings of equivalent calories to the liquid.

9

My brain burns a lot more cycles (calories?) running the emulator all day long and rapidly context-switching in and out of it.

10

I mean, calories are literally the purpose of eating food!

11

The calories on those recipes range from 140 to 386 per $1 serving.

12

According to the Hacker's Diet [1], 3.500 Calories is equivalent to a pound.

Quote examples

1

Most diet shakes are still in the "fat is bad" mindset, and almost all the calories come from simple carbohydrates.

2

Calories in beer come partly from alcohol and partly from complex carbs (hence "liquid bread").

3

As a side note, the usual nutritional calorie (or "Calorie", with uppercase 'C'), is actually 1000 calories, or 4184 Joules.

4

"Total calories in this product" should be the metric.

Proper noun examples

1

Not to mention that the article confounds calories, a physical unit of energy, Calories, a unit of nutritional energy, and kilojoules, the preferred physical unit of energy.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use calories in a sentence?

Via: Big Mac: 530 calories Medium Fries: 340 calories Medium Drink: 200 Calories In order for your maths to work each meal has to cost $8.94.

What does calories mean?

"Calories" is a science fiction short story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, part of his Viagens Interplanetarias series.

What part of speech is calories?

calories is commonly used as N.