Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or generating heat or calories.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of producing heat; causing heat; heating; calorifacient.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating.
- adjective the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sun, and from burning and heated bodies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective UK Relating to
calories . - adjective UK, physics Relating to or
producing heat or otherenergy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective heat-generating
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Beware these books are very high in calorific value, the food is so effectively tossed, drizzled and served throughout the book you really do have to go off and find a bowl of pasta with a nice sauce, dash of balsamic, few pine nuts, throw on some olives, grating of parmesan ... quite often.
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Beware these books are very high in calorific value, the food is so effectively tossed, drizzled and served throughout the book you really do have to go off and find a bowl of pasta with a nice sauce, dash of balsamic, few pine nuts, throw on some olives, grating of parmesan ... quite often.
Endsleigh Whodunnit 2007
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Beware these books are very high in calorific value, the food is so effectively tossed, drizzled and served throughout the book you really do have to go off and find a bowl of pasta with a nice sauce, dash of balsamic, few pine nuts, throw on some olives, grating of parmesan ... quite often.
Endsleigh Whodunnit 2007
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This definite amount of heat per pound liberated by perfect combustion is termed the calorific value of that substance.
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(The bubble tea is great, but too calorific to make it a weekly habit.)
A busy day, and Dreamwidth jaylake 2009
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Mr. Vulis said that ENRC already uses about a million tons of Shubarkol's high calorific coal to produce aluminum, iron ore and ferrochrome.
ENRC Offers to Buy Kazakh Coal Miner Benoit Faucon 2011
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Another argument in favor of the size threshold is that large chains tend to engage in much more pre-preparation and fakery, resulting in deeply surprising calorie counts (like the example of the salad that is more calorific than the burger, etc.) — smaller chains and sole establishments tend to use actual, you know, food.
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"You can still cook great things that are calorific, but you just need to intro it with kind of — Look, this is a special occasion, or this is for the holidays, or whatever."
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He said that the company's imported coal requirement up to 2015 is around 25 tons of varying calorific from 4,800 kcal/kilogram to 6,400 kcal/kg.
Essar Eyeing Two Coal-Bed Methane Blocks in Indonesia I Made Sentana of Dow Jones Newswires 2011
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The company said its reserves in Colombia have high calorific value, low sulfur and low ash.
Itochu Buys Stake in Colombian Coal Operation Kenneth Maxwell 2011
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