ingredient

«ingredient» in Mova's school dictionary: one of the foods or things that are mixed together to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an ingredient, ingredients)

meaning for a pupil

1) An ingredient is one of the foods or things that are mixed together to make a dish, like flour and eggs in a cake. tree →

2) An ingredient is one of the parts or qualities that make something happen or succeed (the ingredients of a good story). tree →

sense in the lessons

In cooking and maths, recipes list ingredients with amounts; doubling a recipe means doubling every ingredient, and halving it means halving every one. In health lessons, food labels list ingredients in order from most to least, and show allergens like nuts, milk or gluten. In writing lessons, the ingredients of a good story are characters, setting and a problem. Phrases: list of ingredients, main ingredient, key ingredient, secret ingredient.

examples

• Flour, sugar, eggs and butter are the ingredients of the cake. tree →
• Read the list of ingredients to check for nuts. tree →
• The secret ingredient in Grandma's soup is a pinch of ginger. tree →
• We weighed all the ingredients before baking. tree →
• The recipe needs 200 grams of flour, so for a double batch we need 400 grams. tree →
• Kindness is an important ingredient of friendship. tree →
• The main ingredient on the label comes first. tree →

note

Countable: an ingredient, ingredients. In maths recipe problems, scale every ingredient by the same number (same ratio). On food labels, ingredients are listed from the largest amount to the smallest.

In the corpora

• Even simple recipes from a bot can have mistakes, such as a missing ingredient.
• Pictures on packets are adverts; the ingredients list shows what is really inside.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «ingredient» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.