recipe

Meaning

  1. A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
  2. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
  3. By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
  4. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
  5. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

Concepts

recipe

prescription

formula

receipt

order

orders

manufacturing method

income

proceeds

receipts

return

revenue

takings

fine

ordinance

construction

how to grow

style of building

way of making

workmanship

book

collection of formula

manual

reference book

textbook

treatise

dish

fare

food

cookbook

method

mode

procedure

standard

cookery

cuisine

nostrum

secret

batch formula

compounding

dispensation

dispensing

formulation

medical prescription

rule

Frequency

C1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/
Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”). Doublet of recept and receipt.

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