What's the difference between recipe and remedy?

Recipe


Definition:

  • (n.) A formulary or prescription for making some combination, mixture, or preparation of materials; a receipt; especially, a prescription for medicine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
  • (2) The checkpoints are a recipe for harassment and abuse.” Among other moves disclosed were plans to hire 300 extra security guards to secure public transport in the city.
  • (3) Following eight years of employment during which he added pectin to a recipe for Christmas candies, the candymaker developed acute respiratory symptoms.
  • (4) He gave a recipe for a bomb he used to make as a kid, the ingredients of which could be smuggled in.
  • (5) We have included pig’s trotters in our recipe to give the stew a gelatinous richness, and you can also throw in some ears for the same effect.
  • (6) The sort of recipes that have a versatility to them, an easy feel, where they can fit into a meal however we wish.
  • (7) As the Electronic Frontier Foundation has noted , “this is a recipe for disaster,” and it is being done by circumventing the normal democratic process.
  • (8) The FSA for its part is due to publish its own proposals on banking reform this week, and its recipe wil look less bold than King's speech, possibly reflecting the continuing tensions between the Bank and the FSA.
  • (9) How many would have foreseen a national conversation – in public and in private – that revolves around the three Rs: renovation, recipes and resorts?
  • (10) The appetite for foodie apps continues unabated; Oliver's app was knocked off the top spot by Dishy, a UK app which features recipes sourced by a web designer and his mother, and apps such as Epicurious have been successful on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (11) Eight variants of recipes for mixtures of straw and concentrated feed with 10 to 60 per cent straw more or less finely ground (86 to 314 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) and fattening feed for lambs (50 g crude fibre per kg dry matter) were checked concerning the digestibility of crude nutrients for fullgrown wethers and 60 to 80-, 80 to 100-and 100 to 120-day-old lambs which had been ablactated at an age of 60 days.
  • (12) The present computing algorithms should be quite efficient for optimizing existing buffer recipes for chromatofocusing or ampholyte displacement chromatography or for creating new, properly tailored, buffer mixtures.
  • (13) There is no patent recipe, no 'common' intervention which gives a reliable result in all cases.
  • (14) Chefs Jorge and Beto offer classes in making traditional family recipes, combined with a market tour for groups of up to six, from £65pp for four hours.
  • (15) Bonus recipe: stress-free custard I was taught how to make this by Claire Ptak, who runs Violet Cakes in east London.
  • (16) Formaldehyde from recipe for the treatment of Pyrofix 2 migrates in the air environment.
  • (17) The frying of some common food items following cookbook recipes also emitted mutagenic aerosol particles but the emitted activity was less than that in the pork experiment.
  • (18) An experiment explored how well young, middle-aged, and elderly subjects could discriminate the presence or absence of the spice marjoram in a soup prepared according to a published recipe.
  • (19) Carmarthen ham, an air-dried ham similar to serrano, which has been produced to a recipe by five generations of the same Welsh family, is likely to be the next UK food application to clear the regulatory hurdles.
  • (20) Recipes for " tomato burgers " (bestowing this fruit sandwich with the holy title of "burger" is an affront to cows everywhere), help on undergoing a " friendship divorce ", extortionate travel guides … Goop covers a lot of ground.

Remedy


Definition:

  • (n.) That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for the gout.
  • (n.) That which corrects or counteracts an evil of any kind; a corrective; a counteractive; reparation; cure; -- followed by for or against, formerly by to.
  • (n.) The legal means to recover a right, or to obtain redress for a wrong.
  • (n.) To apply a remedy to; to relieve; to cure; to heal; to repair; to redress; to correct; to counteract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This questionnaire asked about the patients' own diagnosis of symptoms, previous remedies and their source.
  • (2) This case study described the success of a technique labeled Multiple Oral Rereading (MOR) in the remediation of a case of acquired alexia in an adult male.
  • (3) The Conservatives are offering the gay community no new measures to remedy the remaining vestiges of homophobia and transphobia .
  • (4) A recent UN study ranked Brazil 116th out of 143 countries in terms of the proportion of women in the national legislature and efforts to remedy this with a quota system – such as those adopted by neighbouring Argentina and Bolivia – have made little headway, despite Suplicy's heavy campaigning.
  • (5) These effects are due to residual silanols on the surface of the column material and may be remedied by adding suitable amines or quaternary ammonium ions to the eluent as anti-tailing agents.
  • (6) The austerity programmes administered by western governments in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis were, of course, intended as a remedy, a tough but necessary course of treatment to relieve the symptoms of debts and deficits and to cure recession.
  • (7) Future research should emphasize the assessment of remedial interventions.
  • (8) While interest in herbal therapy is clearly increasing in Western countries, there are few available data about hepatotoxicity of herbal remedies.
  • (9) The rich ethnopharmacological descriptions in the ancient books of herbal remedy and those scattered in the folklore medicine contribute the possibility of this approach.
  • (10) Many of the factors that make jobs difficult can be remedied without extensive cost to the employer.
  • (11) Early diagnosis, particularly at the time of operation, and remedial treatment reduce mortality.
  • (12) Organic and ionic solutes proved to be equally effective in inducing the osmotic remedial response.
  • (13) Poor crossing undermined Liverpool in the first leg, Klopp had claimed, but the flaw was remedied quickly in the return.
  • (14) Subsequent to baseline, participants used written checklists that identified potential in-home hazards but did not prompt behaviors necessary for hazard remediation.
  • (15) Continued escalation of claims frequency, however, and average paid-claim costs mean that other remedies will have to be sought if the professional liability problem is to be solved.
  • (16) Among the 630 mothers studied, it was observed that a majority of mothers (92%) would take remedial action for diarrhoea when the stool frequency was 3 or more per 12-hour period.
  • (17) Forty mutants are osmotic remedial; 17 of these, and no others, are also temperature-sensitive.
  • (18) The experiments have implications for the nonaversive remediation of self-injury in individuals who are restrained, as well as for the development and maintenance of self-injury in natural settings.
  • (19) A remedial effect other than osmotic protection of these effectors and an adaptive regulatory mechanism for PE formation are suggested.
  • (20) Those of most importance involve interaction with guanethidine-type agents and tricyclic antidepressants, amphetamine-type anorexiants or phenolpropanolamine-type common cold remedies; combined use of potassium retaining diuretics with potassium supplements; and incautious use of diuretics with cardiac glycosides.