recipe

«recipe» in Mova's school dictionary: A recipe tells you what you need (the ingredients) and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (recipe, recipes)

meaning for a pupil

1) A recipe tells you what you need (the ingredients) and what to do (the method) to cook or bake something. tree →

2) A recipe for something is a way that leads to it: «a recipe for success», «a recipe for disaster». tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths: amounts of ingredients for a dish; problems double, halve or scale a recipe; fractions of cups. In science: following steps in order, measuring carefully. In everyday life: cookbooks, family recipes, recipes for a number of servings. In stories: a secret recipe.

examples

• A recipe needs 2 cups of flour for 12 cookies. tree →
• She makes the recipe 3 times. tree →
• The recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar. tree →
• How much flour for half the recipe? tree →
• Grandma's secret recipe for apple pie is in a little book. tree →
• Read the whole recipe before you start. tree →
• This recipe makes 8 pancakes. tree →
• Leaving your bike outside unlocked is a recipe for trouble. tree →

note

A recipe gives amounts per batch, a rate: total = amount per recipe × number of recipes. Trap: when making more or fewer servings, every ingredient changes by the same factor. Spelling: recipe (three syllables: RES-i-pee). Do not confuse with receipt (a paper showing what you paid).

In the corpora

• It can drop the sugar from a cookie recipe.
• Even simple recipes from a bot can have mistakes, such as a missing ingredient.
• Grandparents who live with a family often keep its traditions, recipes and language alive.
• Cooking a grandparent's recipe keeps family traditions alive, even when it goes wrong at first.

Trees and pragmatics

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