calorie
/ˈkæləri/noun
उच्चारण कैलरी
कैलोरी
Basic word
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a unit for measuring how much energy food will produce; (technical) a unit for measuring a quantity of heat
कैलोरी
- a low-calorie diet
- burn calories
- A single samosa contains a surprising number of calories.
+ 3 more examples
- Walking for an hour burns about two hundred calories.
- The label shows how many calories each biscuit has.
- Athletes need to take in more calories than office workers.
Synonyms energy unit kilocalorie kcal
§Structures (grammar patterns) 5
calorie (countable)
Always count it: one calorie, many calories. It is a unit, not an uncountable mass.
इसे हमेशा गिना जाता है: one calorie, many calories। यह एक इकाई है, अगणनीय पदार्थ नहीं।
- An apple has about fifty calories.
- Cycling burns many calories.
calorie + count / intake / content
Common compound nouns for the amount of energy in food.
भोजन में ऊर्जा की मात्रा के लिए प्रचलित यौगिक noun।
- Check the calorie content on the packet.
- Her daily calorie intake is about two thousand.
high-calorie / low-calorie + noun
Hyphenated compound adjectives describe food or drink.
Hyphen वाले यौगिक adjective भोजन या पेय का वर्णन करते हैं।
- Sweets are high-calorie foods.
- She chose a low-calorie salad.
burn / cut / count calories
Typical verbs: burn means use up energy, cut means reduce, count means keep track of.
सामान्य verbs: burn का अर्थ ऊर्जा खर्च करना, cut घटाना, count हिसाब रखना।
- He started counting calories to lose weight.
- A half-hour run burns two hundred calories.
calorie and kilocalorie
The 'calories' on food labels are really kilocalories (kcal). One kilocalorie equals one thousand small calories used in physics.
खाद्य पदार्थों के लेबल पर 'calories' वास्तव में kilocalories (kcal) होती हैं। एक kilocalorie भौतिकी की एक हज़ार छोटी calories के बराबर है।
- Food labels show kilocalories, called calories in daily speech.
- One kcal equals one thousand small calories.
+Collocations 5
verb + calories
burncountcutconsumegainwaste
- Walking quickly for an hour burns plenty of calories.
adjective + calorie
emptydailyextratotalexcesslow
- Fried snacks are full of empty calories.
calorie + noun
intakecountburndeficitchartlimit
- She kept a calorie chart on her fridge.
quantity + calories
a hundreda fewtoo manythousands ofplenty of
- A samosa has too many calories for a light snack.
calorie + diet
calorie-controlled dietcalorie-rich foodcalorie-counting appcalorie deficit
- A calorie-counting app helped him plan his meals.
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- A growing child needs more calories than an adult.
बढ़ते बच्चे को वयस्क से अधिक calories चाहिए।
- Radhika walks to college to burn some calories.
राधिका कुछ calories जलाने के लिए पैदल कॉलेज जाती है।
- One gram of fat gives more calories than one gram of sugar.
एक ग्राम वसा एक ग्राम चीनी से अधिक calories देती है।
- The label on the biscuit packet shows the calories per serving.
बिस्कुट के पैकेट के लेबल पर प्रति परोसे की calories दी होती हैं।
- Athletes eat a high-calorie diet during training.
खिलाड़ी प्रशिक्षण के दौरान उच्च-calorie आहार लेते हैं।
- The nutrition chart shows the calories in each food item.
पोषण तालिका प्रत्येक खाद्य पदार्थ की calories दिखाती है।
!Common mistakes 2
✗ This food has too much calories.
✓ This food has too many calories.
Calories are countable, so use 'many'.
Calories गणनीय हैं, इसलिए 'many' का प्रयोग होता है।
✗ A banana has a calories of ninety.
✓ A banana has about ninety calories.
State the number directly before 'calories'.
'Calories' से पहले सीधे संख्या रखें।
◇Word family
≈Synonyms and antonyms
Synonyms
energy unit kilocalorie kcal
AaSpelling
cal·o·rie
“Collocations, idioms and sayings
Low-calorie or high-calorie, burn calories (use energy through exercise), count calories (be careful about how much you eat), empty calories (calories from food with little nutritional value, like sugar).
Collocations: low-calorie या high-calorie, burn calories (व्यायाम से ऊर्जा ख़र्च करना), count calories (कितना खाते हैं इस बारे में सावधान रहना), empty calories (चीनी जैसे कम पोषक भोजन से कैलोरी)।
✓In the exam
General knowledge
Science GK: 1 calorie is the heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C; food energy is usually given in kilocalories (kcal, 1,000 calories) or kilojoules; fats give about 9 kcal per gram, while carbohydrates and proteins give about 4 kcal per gram; the calorific value of a fuel is the heat produced by burning a fixed amount of it (hydrogen has the highest).
विज्ञान GK में 1 कैलोरी 1 ग्राम पानी का तापमान 1 °C बढ़ाने के लिए आवश्यक ऊष्मा है; भोजन ऊर्जा प्रायः kilocalories (kcal, 1,000 कैलोरी) या kilojoules में दी जाती है; वसा से प्रति ग्राम लगभग 9 kcal, जबकि carbohydrates और proteins से प्रति ग्राम लगभग 4 kcal मिलती है; किसी ईंधन का ऊष्मीय मान (calorific value) उसकी निश्चित मात्रा जलाने से उत्पन्न ऊष्मा है (hydrogen का सबसे अधिक)।