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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#m1)

2) A recipe for something is a way that leads to it: «a recipe for success», «a recipe for disaster». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x1)
- She makes the recipe 3 times. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x2)
- The recipe uses 3/4 cup of sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x3)
- How much flour for half the recipe? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x4)
- Grandma's secret recipe for apple pie is in a little book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x5)
- Read the whole recipe before you start. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x6)
- This recipe makes 8 pancakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x7)
- Leaving your bike outside unlocked is a recipe for trouble. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/6/)
- [Even simple recipes from a bot can have mistakes, such as a missing ingredient.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/16/)
- [Grandparents who live with a family often keep its traditions, recipes and language alive.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/512-the-granny-who-spoils-you-and-the-strict-grandad/35/)
- [Cooking a grandparent's recipe keeps family traditions alive, even when it goes wrong at first.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/513-grandparents-abroad-and-grandparents-you-never-met/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recipe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recipe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.