RECIPE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recipe mean? 

• RECIPE (noun)
  The noun RECIPE has 1 sense:

1. directions for making something

  Familiarity information: RECIPE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECIPE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Directions for making something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

formula; recipe

Hypernyms ("recipe" is a kind of...):

direction; instruction (a message describing how something is to be done)

 Context examples 

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The recipe is used for lab experiments designed to simulate Titan’s chemistry.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The isinglass recipe for the shirt-fronts is in the strong-box at Drummond’s Bank.—Yours obediently, AMBROSE.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Get recipe for Mina.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Promising results finally came when the researchers added a third gas, essentially tweaking the flavors in the recipe for the first time.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

NASA scientists have created a new recipe that captures key flavors of the brownish-orange atmosphere around Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The process is like being given a slice of cake and trying to figure out the recipe by tasting it.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)