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recipe - 7 dictionary results

rec⋅i⋅pe

[res-uh-pee]
–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
rec·i·pe   (rěs'ə-pē')   
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.]

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.
Language Translation for : recipe
Spanish: receta,
German: das Rezept, Rezept…,
Japanese: 料理法

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.

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

recipe rec·i·pe (rěs'ə-pē')
n.

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

recipe
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