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rec·i·pe    Audio Help   [res-uh-pee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a set of instructions for making or preparing something, esp. a food dish: a recipe for a cake.
2.a medical prescription.
3.a method to attain a desired end: a recipe for success.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME < L: take, impv. sing. of recipere to receive]
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rec·i·pe    Audio Help   (rěs'ə-pē')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A set of directions with a list of ingredients for making or preparing something, especially food.
  2. A formula for or means to a desired end: a recipe for success.
  3. A medical prescription.


[Latin, sing. imperative of recipere, to take, receive; see receive.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source
recipe 
1584, "medical prescription," from M.Fr. récipé, from L. recipe "take!," imperative of recipere "to take" (see receive); word written by physicians at the head of prescriptions. Meaning "instructions for preparing food" first recorded 1743. The original sense survives only in the pharmacist's abbreviation Rx.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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recipe

noun
directions for making something 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source
recipe [ˈresəpi] noun
a set of instructions on how to prepare and cook something
Example: a recipe for curry; (also adjective) a recipe book
Arabic: وَصْفَة طَبْخ
Chinese (Simplified): 食谱
Chinese (Traditional): 食譜
Czech: recept
Danish: opskrift; opskrift-
Dutch: recept
Estonian: retsept
Finnish: resepti
French: (de) recette
German: das Rezept, Rezept…
Greek: συνταγή μαγειρικής
Hungarian: recept
Icelandic: uppskrift
Italian: ricetta, di ricette*
Japanese: 料理法
Korean: 요리법, 조리법
Latvian: (kulinārijas) recepte; recepšu-
Lithuanian: receptas
Norwegian: (mat)oppskrift
Polish: przepis
Portuguese (Brazil): receita
Portuguese (Portugal): receita
Romanian: reţetă
Russian: кулинарный рецепт
Slovak: recept
Slovenian: recept
Spanish: receta
Swedish: recept
Turkish: yemek tarifi
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rec·i·pe (rs-p)
n.

  1. The heading that is used to indicate a medical prescription, usually .
  2. A medical prescription.

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Main Entry: rec·i·pe
Pronunciation: 'res-&-(")pE
Function: noun
: PRESCRIPTION 1

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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recipe
suspension

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source

Recipe

Re*ceive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Received; p. pr. & vb. n. Receiving.] [OF. receiver, recevoir, F. recevoir, fr. L. recipere; pref. re- re- + capere to take, seize. See See Capable, Heave, and cf. Receipt, Reception, Recipe.]

1. To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter.

Receyven all in gree that God us sent. --Chaucer.

2. Hence: To gain the knowledge of; to take into the mind by assent to; to give admission to; to accept, as an opinion, notion, etc.; to embrace.

Our hearts receive your warnings. --Shak.

The idea of solidity we receives by our touch. --Locke.

3. To allow, as a custom, tradition, or the like; to give credence or acceptance to.

Many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots. --Mark vii. 4.

4. To give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, and the like; as, to receive a lodger, visitor, ambassador, messenger, etc.

They kindled a fire, and received us every one. --Acts xxviii. 2.

5. To admit; to take in; to hold; to contain; to have capacity fro; to be able to take in.

The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings. --1 Kings viii. 64.

6. To be affected by something; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage.

Against his will he can receive no harm. --Milton.

7. To take from a thief, as goods known to be stolen.

8. (Lawn Tennis) To bat back (the ball) when served.

Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service.

Syn: To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit.

Usage: Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act of taking. To accept denotes the taking with approval, or for the purposes for which a thing is offered. Thus, we receive a letter when it comes to hand; we receive news when it reaches us; we accept a present when it is offered; we accept an invitation to dine with a friend.

Who, if we knew What we receive, would either not accept Life offered, or soon beg to lay it down. --Milton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Recipe

Rec"i*pe\, n.; pl. Recipes. [L., imperative of recipere to take back, take in, receive. See Receive.] A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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