recipe
/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.
Archaic
noun
Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
noun
A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a prescription.
noun
Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
noun
A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French récipé, from Latin recipe, second person singular imperative of Latin recipiō (“receive”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *keh₂p-, récipé, recipe, recipiō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/
- British English: /ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/