What does ingredient mean?
Definitions for ingredient
ɪnˈgri di əntin·gre·di·ent
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Princeton's WordNet
ingredient(noun)
a component of a mixture or compound
component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient(noun)
an abstract part of something
"jealousy was a component of his character"; "two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony"; "the grammatical elements of a sentence"; "a key factor in her success"; "humor: an effective ingredient of a speech"
ingredient, fixings(noun)
food that is a component of a mixture in cooking
"the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad"
Wiktionary
ingredient(Noun)
One of the substances present in a mixture.
Etymology: * From ingrediens, present participle of ingredi, "to go or enter into or onto".
Webster Dictionary
Ingredient(noun)
that which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent
Etymology: [F. ingrdient, L. ingrediens, -entis, entering into, p. pr. of ingredi, p. p. ingressus, to go into, to enter; pref. in- in + gradi to walk, go. See Grade.]
Ingredient(adj)
entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part
Etymology: [F. ingrdient, L. ingrediens, -entis, entering into, p. pr. of ingredi, p. p. ingressus, to go into, to enter; pref. in- in + gradi to walk, go. See Grade.]
Freebase
Ingredient
An ingredient is a substance that forms part of a mixture. For example, in cooking, recipes specify which ingredients are used to prepare a specific dish. Many commercial products contain a secret ingredient that is purported to make them better than competing products. In the pharmaceutical industry, an active ingredient is that part of a formulation that yields the effect required by the customer. National laws usually require prepared food products to display a list of ingredients, and specifically require that certain additives be listed. In most developed countries, the law requires that ingredients be listed according to their relative weight in the product. If an ingredient itself consists of more than one ingredient, then that ingredient is listed by what percentage of the total product it occupies, with its own ingredients displayed next to it in brackets.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Ingredient
in-grē′di-ent, n. that which enters into compound: a component part of anything. [Fr.,—L. ingrediens, -entis, pr.p. of ingredi—in, into, gradi, to enter.]
Editors Contribution
ingredient
A type of food, drink or matter.
The ingredients for the recipe were sourced locally.
Submitted by MaryC on March 16, 2020
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'ingredient' in Nouns Frequency: #1983
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ingredient in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ingredient in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of ingredient in a Sentence
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality:
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity.
I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this dream a great dream.
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
People are wondering what the magic ingredient is that makes chemistry and that's all we have. We just listen to each other. We don't make assumptions of what the other one may do at any given moment in a scene the Nice Guys.
We are working with partners to get evidence to make a food ingredient claim, this small, proof-of-principle study shows encouraging signs that supplementing one's diet with the ingredient we've developed prevents weight gain in overweight people.
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- مُقَوّم, المكوناتArabic
- přísada, ingredienceCzech
- Inhaltsstoff, Bestandteil, Zutat, IngredienzGerman
- συστατικόGreek
- ingredienteSpanish
- koostisosa, ainesEstonian
- اجزائ, جزءPersian
- valmistusaine, ainesosa, ainesFinnish
- ingrédientFrench
- cuidScottish Gaelic
- ingredienteGalician
- מרכיבHebrew
- alkotórész, alkatrész, hozzávalóHungarian
- բաղադրամասArmenian
- ingredienteItalian
- 原材料, 食材, 成分Japanese
- 성분, 成分Korean
- parsLatin
- состојкаMacedonian
- bestanddeel, ingrediëntDutch
- ingrediensNorwegian
- składnikPolish
- ingredientePortuguese
- ingredientRomanian
- составная часть, компонент, ингредиентRussian
- састојак, sastojakSerbo-Croatian
- prísadaSlovak
- råvara, ingrediensSwedish
- ส่วนผสมThai
- içerikTurkish
- thành phầnVietnamese
- 成分Chinese
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