Recipe Meaning
/ˈɹɛsɪpi/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
nounAny set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
Sentence Examples
Can you give me the recipe?
The recipe serves six people.
I only need one onion for this recipe.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
My grandmother gave me her secret ____ for baking perfect chocolate chip cookies.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She followed the ____ carefully, measuring every ingredient to ensure the cake would rise properly.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
"[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time."
— 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
My grandmother gave me her secret ____ for baking perfect chocolate chip cookies.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She followed the ____ carefully, measuring every ingredient to ensure the cake would rise properly.