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Definition of Recipe

1. Noun. Directions for making something.

Definition of Recipe

1. n. A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

Definition of Recipe

1. Noun. (medicine archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. (defdate from 16th c.) ¹

2. Noun. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

3. Noun. By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result. (defdate from 17th c.) ¹

4. Noun. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes. (defdate from 18th c.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Recipe

1. a set of instructions for making something [n -S]

Medical Definition of Recipe

1. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Recipe

Literary usage of Recipe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Composition of Foods: Baked Products: Raw, Processed, Prepared (1994)
"Page Complete 18289 370 Prepared 18290 371 Incomplete 1455 18291 372 Prepared 1457 18292 373 Frozen, ready-to-heat 18288 374 Prepared from recipe 1453 18293 ..."

2. A Laboratory Hand-book for Dietetics by Mary Swartz Rose (1912)
"When a recipe is made, it is also well to consider the number of ordinary servings which ... TO ANALYZE A recipe. In studying the economics of the dietary, ..."

3. A Laboratory Hand-book for Dietetics by Mary Swartz Rose (1912)
"When a recipe is made, it is also well to consider the number of ordinary servings which ... TO ANALYZE A recipe. In studying the economics of the dietary, ..."

4. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1844)
"called, elbow grease; unless sportsmen choose to take the additional trouble of adopting the following recipe ; which I shall here give, under the idea, ..."

5. A Laboratory Hand-book for Dietetics by Mary Swartz Rose (1912)
"When a recipe is made, it is also well to consider the number of ordinary servings which ... TO ANALYZE A recipe. In studying the economics of the dietary, ..."

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