Recipe

Quick meaning: Recipe is a noun meaning (medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.

Meaning

(medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.

More Meanings

1. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
2. (by extension) A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
3. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
4. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

Example Sentences

Stepper recipes.

His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.

[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.

As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for recipe

Depending on context, synonyms include receipt, formula.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include formula, over-the-counter, prescription, dose, potion, solution.

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