Recipe
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/, /ˈɹɛs.ə.pi/
Origin
From Latin recipiÅ ("receive"). Compare receipt.
Full definition of recipe
Noun
recipe
(plural recipes)- (medicine, archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. from 16th c.
- 2013-08-10, A new prescription, 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.
- Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. from 17th c.
- By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result. from 17th c.His new approach is definitely a recipe for success.
- Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes. from 18th c.
- a set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.Stepper recipes.