Recipe

Definitions

1. A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
   archaic
2. Nonstandard spelling of recipe.
   alt-of, nonstandard
3. Note that comprises that that it has to compose something, and the way to do it.
4. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
5. by facultative prescription.
6. A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
   broadly
7. Written note of this prescription 2.
8. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
9. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“[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.”

“His new approach⟳ is definitely a recipe for success.”

“Stepper recipes.”

“Another recipé given for the yeast poultice is: Mix⟳ one‐fourth of a pound of flour, or linseed meal with two ounces of yeast, or beer grounds.”

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