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Narrator: Today's word is "Recipe" — noun, pronounced /ˈresəpi/, with the stress on "re".
Narrator: A recipe is a set of instructions telling you how to cook something, including the ingredients.
Narrator: In plain English, it tells you how to make a dish.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin recipe, meaning "take", once written at the top of medical prescriptions.
Narrator: A common collocation is "follow a recipe", which describes cooking step by step.
Narrator: It differs from "menu", because a menu lists dishes, while a recipe explains how to make one.
Narrator: In a second sense, "a recipe for disaster" is a situation likely to go badly.
Narrator: Cooking, publishing, chemistry and software all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a recipe is a method for success, or for disaster.
Speaker A: How did you make this cake?
Speaker B: Grandma's RECIPE! It comes from the Latin for "take".
Speaker A: Written down?
Speaker B: On a stained old card.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "Follow the recipe exactly", a baking tip. "Ignoring the warning is a recipe for disaster", an idiom. "Share your recipe online", a food blog.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Say "REH-suh-pee" with three syllables, and do not confuse it with receipt.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Method is its cousin, formula its twin, and instructions an alternative — yet recipe keeps its tasty charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "recipe" in AI prompts — useful for cooking apps and DevOps.
Speaker A: How for cooking apps?
Speaker B: Adapt it.
Prompt: Adapt this recipe to be vegan and gluten-free without changing the flavour much.
Speaker A: And DevOps?
Speaker B: Configuration recipes.
Prompt: Write a deployment recipe listing each step to set up an Nginx web server.
Speaker A: Could it help shopping?
Speaker B: Yes, for lists.
Prompt: Turn these three recipes into one combined shopping list grouped by aisle.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Portion sizes.
Prompt: Scale this four-person recipe for ten people and convert cups to grams.
Recipe — meaning in Arabic & definition More R courses GL Dictionary