Recipe
['resɪpɪ] or ['rɛsəpi]
Definition
(n.) A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Receipt, prescription, formulary.
Typist: Tito
Definition
n. a medical prescription: any formula for the preparation of a compound: a receipt:—pl. Recipes (res′i-pēz).
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Examples
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The one grand recipe remains for you--the profound philosophical prescription--the be-all and the end-all of your strange existence upon earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But indeed, at that time, putting to death was a recipe much in vogue with all trades and professions, and not least of all with Tellson's. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- In testing the recipes follow the directions with rigid care, and practice on a small quantity of the article until you get it right. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Accounts, letters, recipes, name lists, itineraries; these were the earliest of written documents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Books of recipes are quite numerous, but to the average person the good they contain is too often buried beneath a mass of wordy rubbish. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Among some of the earliest Egyptian writings, for example, are medical recipes and magic formul?. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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