recipe

[ res-uh-pee ]

/ ˈrɛs ə pi /

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noun

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.

Nearby words

recidivate, recidivism, recidivist, recife, recip., recipe, recipience, recipiency, recipient, reciprocal, reciprocal exchange

Origin of recipe

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin: take, imperative singular of recipere to receive

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Examples from the Web for recipe

The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
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Add to the mix the fact that Brown is a religious ex-cop and you have a recipe for even more deep-seated distrust.
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Now you can scroll to the next direction on your recipe without getting batter or sauce all over your device.
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His recipe for the spirit is simple: add a tiger bone to rice wine, steep for 50 days.
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In all nature there is no recipe for getting something for nothing.
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Prepared according to this recipe, frizzled beef will be found both nutritious and appetizing.
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His recipe for making old fruit trees bear well savours of a time when old women were still burnt as witches.
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In any recipe requiring milk, condensed or evaporated milk may be substituted with very satisfactory results.
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And if it contains a recipe for the famous pie, I shall want you to copy it off for me.
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British Dictionary definitions for recipe

recipe

/ (ˈrɛsɪpɪ) /

noun

a list of ingredients and directions for making something, esp a food preparation

med (formerly) a medical prescription

a method for achieving some desired objectivea recipe for success

Word Origin for recipe

C14: from Latin, literally: take (it)! from recipere to take, receive

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Word Origin and History for recipe

recipe

1580s, "medical prescription," from Middle French récipé (15c.), from Latin recipe "take!," second person imperative singular of recipere "to take" (see receive); word written by physicians at the head of prescriptions. Figurative use from 1640s. Meaning "instructions for preparing food" first recorded 1743. The original sense survives only in the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.

Medicine definitions for recipe

recipe

[ rĕs′ə-pē′ ]

n.

The heading that is used to indicate a medical prescription, usually ℞.

A medical prescription.

recipe

noun

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