recipe
a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a food dish: a recipe for a cake.
a medical prescription.
a method to attain a desired end: a recipe for success.
Origin of recipe
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How to use recipe in a sentence
Doubling a recipe doesn’t always work, so it’s much easier to have a proven platform that you know how to scale.
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Five great display and video advertising tactics to increase relevance and revenue in a cookie-less world | Anastasia-Yvoni Spiliopoulou | August 24, 2020 | Search Engine WatchThat’s why you’ve got to try this cold brew lemonade recipe.
They are waiting for fast and useful responses if they are cooking and want Alexa to tell them a specific recipe.
10 Tips to perform in depth local SEO for your business | Jackson Keil | July 20, 2020 | Search Engine WatchViewers were invited to cook along to a recipe with Oz using Campbell’s Swanson brand products and were brought on screen to ask her questions throughout.
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The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside | Justin Rohrlich | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAdd to the mix the fact that Brown is a religious ex-cop and you have a recipe for even more deep-seated distrust.
To Catch a Sex Worker: A&E’s Awful, Exploitative Ambush Show | Samantha Allen | December 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNow you can scroll to the next direction on your recipe without getting batter or sauce all over your device.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Richard Hendriks in Your Life | Allison McNearney | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnother chilling recipe for injustice and resentment by closing down the open society you seek to promote.
You do wonder, though, why he never again tried his own wonderful recipe.
On another occasion he was asked if he would “be so kind as to give the recipe for making that beautiful toast.”
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIt is, therefore, with pleasure I make known the following recipe, which I am assured has been tried with efficacy.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; | VariousSuch a recipe does not seem to help forward an enthusiastic student to any material extent.
Witch, Warlock, and Magician | William Henry Davenport AdamsBut in any case there is no recipe by means of which one can attain to what is called the ideally beautiful.
The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) | Richard MutherThe novel is one of the very few that follows Mr. Weller's recipe, and makes us "wish that there was more of it."
Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. | Solomon Maimon
British Dictionary definitions for recipe
/ (ˈrɛsɪpɪ) /
a list of ingredients and directions for making something, esp a food preparation
med (formerly) a medical prescription
a method for achieving some desired objective: a recipe for success
Origin of recipe
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