Recipe Definition

rĕsə-pē
recipes
noun
recipes

Prescription.

Webster's New World
A list of materials and directions for preparing a dish or drink.
Webster's New World
A formula for or means to a desired end.
A recipe for success.
American Heritage
A medical prescription.
American Heritage Medicine
Any procedure for accomplishing something.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Recipe

Noun

Singular:
recipe
Plural:
recipes

Origin of Recipe

  • Latin sing. imperative of recipere to take, receive receive

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin recipiō (“receive"). Compare receipt.

    From Wiktionary

Recipe Sentence Examples

  • Anyone got a good recipe for cake-with-file?

  • I got the chicken if you got the recipe!

  • This simple recipe is quick to put together and makes six to eight medium-sized pancakes.

  • Try this recipe to make cashew-based raw food cheese.

  • That three-billion-letter recipe for making you is what was sequenced—deciphered and written down—in the human genome project.

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Words Starting With

RREREC

Words Ending With

EPEIPE

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Words Starting With R and Ending With E

Starts With R & Ends With EStarts With RE & Ends With EStarts With R & Ends With PE

Word Length

6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With R6 Letter Words Ending With E