adj
Meaning 1
Relating to calories.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- caloric intake
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
caloric
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/kəˈlɒɹɪk/
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/ˈkæləɹɪk/
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adj
Meaning 2
Containing calories.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Milk is a caloric beverage.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Synonym of calorific (“high in calories and thus likely fattening”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- a dry, caloric food
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: calorific
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Synonym of calorific (“relating to or producing heat or other energy”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: calorific
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The hypothetical medium of heat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 6
of or relating to calories in food
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- comparison of foods on a caloric basis
- the caloric content of foods
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 7
relating to or associated with heat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- thermal movements of molecules
- thermal capacity
- thermic energy
- the caloric effect of sunlight
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thermal, thermic
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From calorie + -ic. From French calorique, coined by French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin calor (“heat”).
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: calòric — relating to calories
- Finnish: kalorinen — relating to calories
- Catalan: calòric — containing calories
- Finnish: kaloripitoinen — containing calories
- Finnish: runsaskalorinen — high in calories and thus likely fattening — see also calorific