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UK
/ɪnɡɹˈiːdiənt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈɡɹidiənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈɡɹidiənt/ ]
NOUN
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food that is a component of a mixture in cooking
the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad - a component of a mixture or compound
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an abstract part of something
a key factor in her success
two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony
humor: an effective ingredient of a speech
jealousy was a component of his character
the grammatical elements of a sentence
How To Use ingredient In A Sentence
- Fun is the secret ingredient of a lot of great companies, but 10 years of economic prosperity, a resurgent stock market, and the dawning of the dot-com have created other business priorities.
- Instead of giving a couple of set recipes, it gave a basic custard recipe and then ingredients to "infuse" (step one), to "add" (step two) and to "mix in" (step three), depending on your taste. Post-gazette.com - News
- Simply inserting the word "conservation" in the pesticide label and slightly watering down the percentage of the active ingredient, brodifacoum, does not make this rodenticide safe for wildlife, nor will it make it any less persistent. Maggie Sergio: The Proposal to Poison a Wildlife Refuge
- The vital ingredient of popular appeal was not there despite several bids to rejig the story.
- True to her word, Helen uses the best ingredients including free-range eggs and her own jam in her cakes.
- Distilled in the old Irish tradition this pure pot still single malt whiskey uses only the most natural Irish ingredients of barley and fresh spring water.
- According to the pack, the main ingredient was glucose syrup. Times, Sunday Times
- There's usually a queue outside this pizzeria right opposite Cibreo - the reason being the excellent, echt Neapolitan pizzas made with the finest ingredients.
- There, the cook grills your ingredients and presto, you have lunch.
- Place all the ingredients in a blender and whizz into a salsa. Times, Sunday Times
