Ingredient
/ɪnˈɡriːdiənt/noun
One part or element of a bigger thing, sometimes used in cooking a recipe.
Flour, eggs, and sugar are the main ingredients in this cake recipe.
Often appears as...
- key ingredient
- active ingredient
noun
Something that is needed to achieve a result or effect.
Trust is a key ingredient in a successful relationship.
Often appears as...
- key ingredient
- essential ingredient
Usage tips
Approving
noun
One of the substances in a medicine or a cosmetic product.
This sunscreen's active ingredient is zinc oxide.
Often appears as...
- active ingredient
- listed ingredient
noun
One part or element of a bigger thing, sometimes used in cooking a recipe.
Flour, eggs, and sugar are the main ingredients in this cake recipe.
Often appears as...
- key ingredient
- active ingredient
noun
Something that is needed to achieve a result or effect.
Trust is a key ingredient in a successful relationship.
Often appears as...
- key ingredient
- essential ingredient
Usage tips
Approving
noun
One of the substances in a medicine or a cosmetic product.
This sunscreen's active ingredient is zinc oxide.
Often appears as...
- active ingredient
- listed ingredient
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Pro Tip 1/3Recipe Context
In cooking, 'ingredient' refers to items combined to prepare dishes.
Make sure you have all the ingredients before you start baking.
Pro Tip 2/3Quantity Precision
Exact amounts of each ingredient are often crucial in recipes.
The recipe calls for three main ingredients: two cups of flour, one cup of sugar, and one egg.
Pro Tip 3/3Substitutions Possible
You can sometimes replace ingredients with alternatives if needed.
If you don't have butter, you can use oil as an ingredient instead.
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Noah Wilson-Rich: Every...
You just mix up some pollen, sugar and water, and whatever active ingredient you want to put in, and you just give it right to the bees. No chemicals involved, just immune boosters. Humans think about our own health in a prospective way. We exercise, we eat healthy, we take vitamins. Why don't we think about honeybees in that same type of way?
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The deadly irony of...
that would make you live forever. In these early days, the Chinese hadn't yet figured out how to make the powder explode; it was simply very flammable, and their armies used it to make flaming arrows and even a flamethrower. But once they figured out the right proportions of ingredients to create a blast,
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Blueprint for a quiet...
humanity one out of every two or three people you know is introverted so we're dreaming really big and I want to just give you in the interest of time the quickest look at three of the many big projects on our drawing board okay first transforming office architecture solitude is a crucial ingredient of
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How aspirin was...
and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that why they'd found was destined to influence the future course of medicine. What the Sumerians had discovered was a precursor to the medicine known today as aspirin. Aspirin's active ingredient is found commonly in willow trees
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Nature's smallest...
that repeatedly reuse and rebuild ingredients crafting as much as possible out of the planet's available resources. Such as that sugar, built using raw sunlight and carbon converted in plant factories to become the energy that powers you and keeps the cycles revolving in your own life.
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The complex geometry of...
One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on. There's another secret ingredient in these an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate,
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What's in Hand...
or thickeners or humectants which help retain water the gel is also easy usually if you see the word polymer in the ingredients list of a gel that polymer is what makes the gel the gel okay so we're left with isopropyl alcohol amino methyl propanol and
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The science of skin...
an ingredient that strengthens bones and lets us absorb vital minerals, like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc. Without it, humans experience serious fatigue and weakened bones that can cause a condition known as rickets.
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Oxygen’s surprisingly...
bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life by delivering oxygen to tissues throughout your body. Most of our cells need oxygen because it's one of the key ingredients of aerobic respiration.
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Water Discovered In...
you have all of the ingredients that you need, that we know of, to develop life as we know it. I love this picture and it's about as much meaning as you can get out of the
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Noah Wilson-Rich: Every...
You just mix up some pollen, sugar and water, and whatever active ingredient you want to put in, and you just give it right to the bees. No chemicals involved, just immune boosters. Humans think about our own health in a prospective way. We exercise, we eat healthy, we take vitamins. Why don't we think about honeybees in that same type of way?
Video examples
The deadly irony of...
that would make you live forever. In these early days, the Chinese hadn't yet figured out how to make the powder explode; it was simply very flammable, and their armies used it to make flaming arrows and even a flamethrower. But once they figured out the right proportions of ingredients to create a blast,
Video examples
Blueprint for a quiet...
humanity one out of every two or three people you know is introverted so we're dreaming really big and I want to just give you in the interest of time the quickest look at three of the many big projects on our drawing board okay first transforming office architecture solitude is a crucial ingredient of
Video examples
How aspirin was...
and ate it, their pain disappeared. Little did they know that why they'd found was destined to influence the future course of medicine. What the Sumerians had discovered was a precursor to the medicine known today as aspirin. Aspirin's active ingredient is found commonly in willow trees
Video examples
Nature's smallest...
that repeatedly reuse and rebuild ingredients crafting as much as possible out of the planet's available resources. Such as that sugar, built using raw sunlight and carbon converted in plant factories to become the energy that powers you and keeps the cycles revolving in your own life.
Video examples
The complex geometry of...
One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on. There's another secret ingredient in these an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate,
Video examples
What's in Hand...
or thickeners or humectants which help retain water the gel is also easy usually if you see the word polymer in the ingredients list of a gel that polymer is what makes the gel the gel okay so we're left with isopropyl alcohol amino methyl propanol and
Video examples
The science of skin...
an ingredient that strengthens bones and lets us absorb vital minerals, like calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphate, and zinc. Without it, humans experience serious fatigue and weakened bones that can cause a condition known as rickets.
Video examples
Oxygen’s surprisingly...
bones, lungs, blood, and heart work together to sustain your life by delivering oxygen to tissues throughout your body. Most of our cells need oxygen because it's one of the key ingredients of aerobic respiration.
Video examples
Water Discovered In...
you have all of the ingredients that you need, that we know of, to develop life as we know it. I love this picture and it's about as much meaning as you can get out of the
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.
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I. M. Pei
American Architect
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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Phil Knight
American Businessman
Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.
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Stephen Covey
American Educator
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Wolfgang Puck
Austrian Chef
The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
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Barbara Bush
American First Lady
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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Denis Waitley
American Writer
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
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Gino D'Acampo
Italian Chef
We Italians respect food and ingredients more than anyone else.
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Edward Herrmann
American Actor
I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.
Quote examples
I. M. Pei
American Architect
One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
Quote examples
Phil Knight
American Businessman
Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.
Quote examples
Stephen Covey
American Educator
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Quote examples
Yotam Ottolenghi
Israeli Chef
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Quote examples
Wolfgang Puck
Austrian Chef
The most important thing for me is to really buy the best ingredient.
Quote examples
Barbara Bush
American First Lady
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
Quote examples
Denis Waitley
American Writer
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
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Gino D'Acampo
Italian Chef
We Italians respect food and ingredients more than anyone else.
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Edward Herrmann
American Actor
I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.
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