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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A set of directions with a list of ingredients for making or preparing something, especially food.
  2. n. A formula for or means to a desired end: a recipe for success.
  3. n. A medical prescription.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Take: a Latin imperative used (commonly abbreviated R. or ℞) at the beginning of physicians' prescriptions, as formerly and in part still written in Latin.
  2. n. A formula for the compounding of a remedy, with directions for its use, written by a physician; a medical prescription.
  3. n. A prescribed formula in general, but especially one having some relation or resemblance to a medical prescription; a receipt.
  4. n. Synonyms Receipt, etc. See reception.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt.
  2. n. archaic a prescription for medicine.
  3. n. archaic a prescription for medicine.
  4. n. a set of directions for preparing food from its ingredients.
  5. n. a method or procedure for accomplishing a goal by defined steps; -- implying a high probability of achieving the goal. Also used in a negative sense, .

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. directions for making something

Etymologies

  1. From Latin recipiō ("receive"). Compare receipt. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, sing. imperative of recipere, to take, receive; see receive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “This recipe is a modification of the pumpkin bisque recipe from the Professional Chef, with a bit of advice from Irene.”

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  • “Paul Romer has used the word recipe to describe this mix.”

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  • “Just last night I made a pork tenderloin recipe from the most recent issue.”

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  • “I am not a fan of the 500 Cupcakes book (I think its b/c I substitute AP flour for the self-rising flour?) but glad that the muffin recipe is yummy.”

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  • “Haha, anyways - all silliness aside, my standard bran muffin recipe is proving to be incredibly versatile these days!”

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  • “Again recipe is generally the same yet we tend to brown the flour a bit more which gives it more flavor.”

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  • “Pretend Soup is to credit for (re) introducing Ian to beans (bean and cheese quesadillas), getting him to try a banana for the first time in 3 years (the title recipe, pretend soup) and encouraging Ian to sound excited about vegetables (his actual consumption of vegetables lags behind his enthusiasm for reading recipes about them, but hopefully the gap will close over time).”

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  • “Ratatouille, the 2007 animated feature about a gastronomically gifted rat, saw him refining the title recipe for the computer animators by thinly slicing the vegetables rather than dicing them, then fanning them upward on the plate.”

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  • “This recipe is a little more traditional and uses a paste of flour and water that is piped across the buns to form the cross.”

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  • “The actual peanut butter cup called for in the recipe is a nice touch (whether yours is melted, like mine, or not) but is optional.”

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. receipt
  1. formula

hypernyms (2)

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  1. direction
  1. instruction

same context (17)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. sauce
  2. dish
  3. cake
  1. salad
  2. pie
  3. ingredient
  1. dessert
  2. meal
  3. Cookie
  1. vegetable
  2. mix
  3. formula
  1. cook
  2. item
  3. diet
  1. wine
  2. restaurant

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. recipe
  2. receipt
  3. work
  1. ingredient
  2. rec
  3. goofproof
  1. anagraph
  2. tricky
  3. halve
  1. superscription
  2. formula
  3. time-tested
  1. follow
  2. card
  3. prescription
  1. grace-cup
  2. morocco
  3. r

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  1. often misspelled
  2. aim
  3. the enterprise knows the gameplan
  1. the goal is a gimmick ya know
  2. the intendment of intrigue
  3. lays the land with machinations
  1. -meaning notions about objects and objectives
  2. they pitch the pictures
  3. plan the plays
  1. plot the points and project
  2. propositions that purport purpose
  3. the recipe is reflected in scenarios
  1. the scenes of schemes set up the story
  2. the target is thinking
  3. a thought trick undertakes views volition and will
  1. the action
  2. and angle
  3. the big picture is the brainchild of conations
  1. -a conspiracy of deliberation to the end

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  1. admire
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  1. armenian nutmeg cake
  2. cucumber
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  2. pancakes
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  2. tiramisù

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