recipe
Pluralrecipes
- 1A list of steps and ingredients that tells you how to cook a dish.
Like a map that shows you each step to make a meal.
She followed her grandmother's recipe for apple pie.
This recipe needs three eggs and a cup of flour.
- 2A set of steps for mixing ingredients together to make something.
Like a set of steps for mixing colors of paint.
She used a simple recipe to make homemade play dough.
The recipe for the cleaning spray uses vinegar and water.
Similarformula, formulation
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- 3A plan or way of doing something to get a certain result.
Like a plan that leads you step by step to what you want.
Eating well and sleeping enough is a good recipe for health.
Skipping practice every week is a recipe for failure.
Similarformula, prescription, blueprint
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- 4The exact settings and steps a factory uses to make one product.
Like the exact settings a bread machine needs to bake one kind of loaf.
The operator loaded the recipe into the machine before starting the batch.
Each product uses a different recipe of heat and pressure.
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Less common meaning
- 5Instructions for making a medicine, or the medicine made from them.
Like written directions for making a cup of medicine at home.
The apothecary mixed the recipe the physician had written down.
She kept a recipe for fever tucked inside her notebook.
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Origin
It comes from a Latin word meaning "receive." The Latin form was a command meaning "take" or "receive," and it reached English through Middle French récipé.