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recipe

[ res-uh-pee ]

noun

  1. a set of instructions for making or preparing something, especially a food dish:

    a recipe for a cake.

  2. a medical prescription.
  3. a method to attain a desired end:

    a recipe for success.



recipe

/ ˈrɛsɪpɪ /

noun

  1. a list of ingredients and directions for making something, esp a food preparation
  2. med (formerly) a medical prescription
  3. a method for achieving some desired objective

    a recipe for success



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Word History and Origins

Origin of recipe1

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

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Word History and Origins

Origin of recipe1

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

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Example Sentences

The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.

Add to the mix the fact that Brown is a religious ex-cop and you have a recipe for even more deep-seated distrust.

Now you can scroll to the next direction on your recipe without getting batter or sauce all over your device.

Another 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.”

It is, therefore, with pleasure I make known the following recipe, which I am assured has been tried with efficacy.

Such a recipe does not seem to help forward an enthusiastic student to any material extent.

But in any case there is no recipe by means of which one can attain to what is called the ideally beautiful.

The novel is one of the very few that follows Mr. Weller's recipe, and makes us "wish that there was more of it."

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