Associations to the word «Recipe»

Wiktionary

RECIPE, noun. (medicine) (archaic) A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions. [from 16th c.]
RECIPE, noun. Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients. [from 17th c.]
RECIPE, noun. By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result. [from 17th c.]
RECIPE, noun. Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes. [from 18th c.]
RECIPE, noun. A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
RECIPE DISH, noun. Ready meal

Dictionary definition

RECIPE, noun. Directions for making something.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats