noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a basic ingredient of sth
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The ability to adapt is a basic ingredient of survival.
a vital ingredient/component
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Involving teachers in making decisions is a vital ingredient in raising morale.
an essential ingredient
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Most people believe that love is an essential ingredient in a marriage.
dry ingredients (= the things in a recipe that are not liquid )
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Add the eggs and milk to the dry ingredients.
raw ingredients
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Warhol used everyday items as the raw ingredients of his art.
secret ingredient/recipe/formula
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The cookies are made to a secret recipe.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
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Orthokeraten, the active ingredient of Icône, works to boost the process by which the epidermis renews itself every 28 days.
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By using bromocriptine, the company did not have to develop its own similar active ingredient for Ergoset.
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The active ingredient checks the growth of bacteria and so helps natural healing.
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This is why caffeine is the active ingredient in many prescription and nonprescription migraine treatments.
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Since 1986, 700 pesticides have been reviewed from which 350 active ingredients have been banned.
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If they can t tell us that, we need at least to know the active ingredients .
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In 1993, 1.1 billion pounds of active pesticide ingredients were used in the United States, and 4.5 billion pounds world-wide.
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The industry surveys are based on the amounts of active ingredients made for animals by the institute's member companies.
basic
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In our computer models in Chapter 3, we deliberately built into the computer the basic ingredients of cumulative selection.
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The more service added to basic ingredients , the less are the energy and time inputs of the cook.
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The simple perceptron is the basic ingredient of multi-layer perceptrons.
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The basic ingredients are familiar: chicken, carrots, onions and water.
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The seeds are often ground and the resulting powder is a basic ingredient of curry spice mix.
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Two more basic ingredients of leadership are curiosity and daring.
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This has always been one of the basic ingredients of good adult education.
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In fact, that could be said of each of the basic ingredients .
crucial
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The crucial ingredient that turned his clothes into something outstandingly elegant always came from the woman wearing them.
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It is the crucial ingredient in chopped liver.
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And the crucial ingredient ... a bottle of sauce ... as Tony Maycock reports.
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Although wine must at first have seemed of small significance, it proved to be a crucial ingredient for classical culture.
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Empathy is another crucial ingredient when establishing rapport.
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This facility is a crucial ingredient in the process whereby the money supply expands.
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Good leadership from the headteacher has been identified by studies of school effectiveness as a crucial ingredient for success.
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But none of this would have succeeded without a fourth and crucial ingredient , military superiority.
dry
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Add this mixture to the dry ingredients and beat well.
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Mix chocolate with dry ingredients , add the rum.
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Pour over dry ingredients , cover and whirl in blender for about 1 minute.
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Make a well in the dry ingredients and gradually add butter and sugar mixture.
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Mix the wet and dry ingredients only until the flour disappears.
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Add dry ingredients to persimmon mixture and mix well.
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Add the rest of the dry ingredients .
essential
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As an unhappy season has progressed, the committee agreed that coaching was the essential ingredient for lasting success.
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The tasks of selecting, evaluating, rewarding, and even terminating subordinates are essential ingredients of position power.
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Wait, though; didn't we encounter the same essential ingredients in the quiche?
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The unions claim that contented, well-paid workers are an essential ingredient of productivity, and so they are.
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Sieving is an essential ingredient in the generation of living order, but it is very far from being the whole story.
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All are essential ingredients of any open society.
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The catering staff are an essential ingredient of University life.
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But Silber and the others have identified one essential ingredient: abhorrence for the status quo.
fresh
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An under-cook was supervising the cleaning of the stove around the cauldron and the preparation of fresh ingredients to replace those lost.
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By maintaining close contact with produce companies, Fahey secures the freshest ingredients for his menu.
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Meals are prepared by the chef on board using fresh ingredients which are bought daily.
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Ascolese scours local farmers' markets for the freshest ingredients and settles for nothing less than the best.
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The four-course evening meal is home-cooked using fresh ingredients .
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People are still gathering fresh ingredients in the way they have done for years.
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There is no need to build up a sauce from fresh ingredients when there is a cook-in sauce for everything.
important
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However, it is well known that the motivation of the person concerned is an important ingredient in successful independence.
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Parsley is also the perfect herb companion for garlic, which is an important ingredient in this bread.
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They will become an important ingredient of tomorrow's food.
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Your attitude toward a diet is an important ingredient in the success or failure of that diet for you.
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This is because as I understand it, they regard management a very important ingredient within their strategy.
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Desire is the first and most important ingredient of powerful motivation, and powerful motivation is essential to success.
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A rigorous Porter-style analysis seems to be a more important ingredient in the decision inputs.
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On Earth, nitrogen is an important ingredient of both storable rocket fuels and oxidizers.
key
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In well-designed organizations, the ability to change and remain dynamic is a key ingredient of continued competitiveness.
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As purpose is instilled and progress achieved, that will build pride and professionalism, which also are key ingredients of success.
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At this point the strong equivalence principle supplies a key ingredient to understanding curved space-time.
magic
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After boil-off the hopped wort is cooled and oxygenated enroute to fermenting vessel where the magic ingredient , yeast, is added.
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In his view, design is ninety-eight percent commonsense and two percent a magic ingredient to do with aesthetics.
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The resources include energy, enthusiasm and varying amounts of talent, but the magic ingredient is rubbish.
main
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I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing.
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Confidence is the main missing ingredient that is preventing an upturn in the economy.
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I believe its main ingredient was quinine and doubt if it can be obtained today.
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The main ingredient for success, however, has been hard work and determination to complete the task.
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Instead, the main ingredient of success appears to be that they have consistently geared themselves to the needs of international trade.
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The judgment does not affect Pfizer's patent for sildenafil citrate, the main ingredient of the anti-impotence drug Viagra.
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Were a bread-making factory to break the 50 per cent barrier, then water would be the main ingredient .
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Not all are fully multimedia, although most offer at least some of the main ingredients .
natural
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Using natural ingredients , which tend to grow on trees round here, they are both water resistant.
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She will make no extravagant claims for her skin- and hair-care products, all derived from natural ingredients .
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Tasty eating made from only natural ingredients , low in calories and high in protein.
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It would also ban the distinction between natural and artificial ingredients .
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Choose products with natural ingredients instead. the impurities frequently found in tap water.
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It is based on natural ingredients like elderflower, lily and lemon balm.
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Unlike cheaper gins, Gordon's uses only the finest natural ingredients and has never used essences.
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Her fabulous products for face and body contain a wealth of natural ingredients and have been formulated without animal testing.
necessary
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And each work area needs careful thought to ensure that all necessary equipment and ingredients are conveniently to hand.
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For us, it is a necessary ingredient , perhaps in no small measure because we are social animals.
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It describes the necessary ingredients of a rich mathematical activity: It must be accessible to everyone at the start.
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In the opening two games against Seattle, he was nowhere to be found as that necessary ingredient to their playoff mix.
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Reasonable foreseeability is always a necessary ingredient of a negligence action as it is required to establish duty of care.
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Schools, hometown, family background, and social and financial status all were considered necessary ingredients in any romantic arrangement.
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Secrecy was a necessary ingredient of Rufus's life.
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The one necessary ingredient in that decision was the support of Mayor Daley.
other
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Method: Mix the essential oil into the almond oil and stir into the other ingredients to form a paste.
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Mix all the other ingredients to make a marinade and put the kebabs into the marinade for about 40 minutes.
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Add all the other ingredients except for the mushrooms.
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Gently stir in the other ingredients and arrange in scallop shells or on a plate.
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Mix together the other ingredients and pile on to the potatoes.
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The sauce is actually in the pasta, so there's no need to add other ingredients .
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Add all other ingredients except the yogurt and toasted almonds.
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Add all the other ingredients to the eggs and pour into the pan.
principal
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The gas is a principal ingredient of wood.
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Carbon dioxide, a principal ingredient of the exhaust gases made during combustion of hydrocarbons, has a molecular weight of 44.
raw
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Local water and soil will affect the taste of home-grown raw ingredients .
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But these raw ingredients complicated the process.
remaining
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Whisk together remaining ingredients except grapefruit slices and mint leaves.
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Add all the remaining ingredients , bring to the boil and then simmer, uncovered, for 20 minutes.
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Add remaining ingredients and stir until the fondue thickens slightly.
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Add all the remaining ingredients with sufficient wine to cover the meat.
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Add all the remaining ingredients except the redcurrant jelly and sugar.
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Suitable source rocks, the remaining essential ingredient for a petroleum prospect, are expected but have yet to be proved.
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Stir in remaining ingredients and gently cook, stirring until sugar dissolves.
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Make up Bisto with boiling water and add to peppers with remaining ingredients .
right
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Or, having decided on a day's menu, discovering that you don't have the right ingredients to hand?
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If you start with the right ingredients .
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All you seemed to need was the right ingredients and a competent chemist.
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Its uplifting score, endearing characters and happy ending are all the right ingredients for a lovely night out at the cinema.
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Lawrence believes his side have shown the right ingredients for promotion success in the last four games.
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Noel Bridgeman's piano accordion takes over where Dooley Wilson's piano left off, and adds just the right ingredient .
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Another case of a product with all the right ingredients but which lacks true soul.
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It has all the right ingredients but somewhere during preparation something went wrong producing an unsatisfying dish with a bitter aftertaste.
secret
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And what a sauce.The secret ingredient for the latest taste in cheese.
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Every other layer is spinach noodles, and the secret ingredient is the fifth cheese.
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He extracted their blood and their vital juices and boiled them up with mercury and potassium and other, secret ingredients .
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They began to assemble a whole lot more than secret ingredients .
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Meanwhile the 600 secret ingredients in cigarettes are to be published by the Health Department, writes Kevin Maguire.
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There also are secret ingredients that she will not divulge.
vital
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I would urge Reed to think again as wholesalers are a vital ingredient for effective modern bookselling.
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Patience with oneself and with the learner, a sense of humor, and abundant optimism are vital ingredients .
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Once those processes are specifically defined, disciplined execution is the next vital ingredient .
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That vital ingredient - confidence - is still absent but it may resurface soon.
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In all these respects, a product mindset provides a pivot point for other vital ingredients of success.
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The vital ingredient , the ingredient of life, was missing.
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A vital ingredient for exploring these five questions is imagination, and to that I now turn.
■ NOUN
food
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She will be working on a wide range of projects for our expanding activities in savoury food ingredients .
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Personally I want genetically engineered foods and anything containing genetically engineered food ingredients banned.
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Balancing basic food ingredients Grass is not perfectly balanced for all types of horses all year round either.
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Supplements therefore are designed to make up the basic food ingredients and balance them to keep the horse healthy.
■ VERB
add
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Lightly fry the onions. Add all the other ingredients except for the mushrooms.
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The sauce is actually in the pasta, so there's no need to add other ingredients .
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The more service added to basic ingredients , the less are the energy and time inputs of the cook.
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Poach gently in the water for 20 minutes. Add all other ingredients except the yogurt and toasted almonds.
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Then add the remaining ingredients , cover and cook slowly until all liquid is absorbed, about 25 minutes.
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Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Add all the other ingredients to the eggs and pour into the pan.
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When fluffy, gradually add remaining ingredients and mix well.
combine
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In Western-style cooking, it's up to the consumer to combine the ingredients .
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Meanwhile, make sauce. Combine all ingredients , except sesame oil, in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
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To make relish, combine all ingredients and mix thoroughly.
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Learned how to combine the ingredients for pasta, to roll out the dough, and cut it.
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Butter or spray with nonstick spray timbale molds or 3-quart baking dish. Combine all ingredients , mix gently but thoroughly.
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In a small bowl, combine all ingredients for sauce and set aside.
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Preheat oven to 400 F.. In a food processor or blender, combine all coating ingredients and blend until smooth.
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In a small bowl, combine sauce ingredients .
contain
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As well as Silicon and Collagen, it contains a special patented ingredient to help promote the body's own cellular regenerating activity.
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Personally I want genetically engineered foods and anything containing genetically engineered food ingredients banned.
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Some toothpastes are specially made to help keep your gums healthy, as they contain ingredients which fight bacteria.
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She notes with an asterisk the dishes that contain highly perishable ingredients and makes those at the beginning of the week.
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Conditioning Contain ingredients like keratin, panthenol and vitamins B and E which prevent lashes becoming brittle and dry.
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However, they said they were not certain the drink actually contained the ingredients on the label.
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After perming, a neutraliser containing conditioning ingredients is applied to smooth the surface of the hair.
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These contain ingredients which suppress the problem, and no one product works for everyone.
cook
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The food is freshly cooked using local ingredients .
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When you cook with three ingredients , you have to use ingredients that have a lot of flavor.
list
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What animal products are used in other wines, and why are producers not obliged to list the ingredients ?
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Seagram reached a similar settlement with Heublein on more clearly listed ingredients in January.
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Beer is classified as a food stuff and yet it is excluded from the legal requirements to list ingredients .
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Each truckload of concrete arrived from the plant with a certificate listing its ingredients and proportions.
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That is why we have taken the lead in the restaurant industry to voluntarily list and explain the ingredients in our food.
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This is a selection of some of our favorite special ingredients , not a comprehensive listing of all ingredients.
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The pink, heart-shaped pills came in foil packets that listed the ingredients .
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The modern convention, when listing ingredients , is to list them in order of their abundance in the product.
mix
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Beat eggs with yeast extract. Mix together all ingredients , including garlic.
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Arrange meat in a shallow dish. Mix all remaining ingredients together in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
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Make the sauce by mixing together all the ingredients .
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Pick crab meat for any shells. Mix all ingredients together, except crab meat and Cheddar cheese, until smooth.
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When the rice is cooked, gently mix in all other ingredients .
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Some of it was mixed with other ingredients as a compost, some of it was used as pure money.
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In a separate bowl, mix the liquid ingredients .
place
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Traditional Christmas pudding Place all the ingredients together in a large bowl and mix thoroughly.
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Reserve the shells. Place the remaining ingredients in the bowl and stir to combine.
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Squeeze lemon juice over. Place all these ingredients together in a bowl.
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Stir well. Place ingredients in greased pie dish.
remain
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Sprinkle the stock cube over and add the remaining ingredients .
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Mix all remaining ingredients together in a saucepan and bring to a boil.
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Transfer to a heavy-bottomed pot large enough to accommodate the remaining ingredients .
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Return reserved onions and eggplant to pan along with all remaining ingredients .
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Then add the remaining ingredients , cover and cook slowly until all liquid is absorbed, about 25 minutes.
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When fluffy, gradually add remaining ingredients and mix well.
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Add remaining ingredients , except olives, couscous and parsley.
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Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
stir
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Method: Mix the essential oil into the almond oil and stir into the other ingredients to form a paste.
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Add eggs and vanilla and stir in other ingredients .
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Gently stir in the other ingredients and arrange in scallop shells or on a plate.
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In separate bowl combine bananas, milk and lemon peel; add to shortening mixture. Stir in remaining ingredients .
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Whisk the egg lightly and stir into the other ingredients .
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All are made by the freezing while stirring of the ingredient mix from which each is prepared.
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Make topping: Cream the sugar and fat and stir in the remaining ingredients .
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In a bowl, stir ingredients together.
use
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The food is freshly cooked using local ingredients .
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Numerous recipes use more familiar ingredients , such as the summertime trio of ripe tomatoes, mozzarella and basil.
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Meals are prepared by the chef on board using fresh ingredients which are bought daily.
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Sushi-Cho also uses only ingredients sparkling fresh from the sea and garden.
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The policy of John Bull is to make the finest confectionery in the old fashioned way, using the best ingredients .
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When you cook with three ingredients , you have to use ingredients that have a lot of flavor.
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The initial outlay is quite low and the information here is based on using equipment and ingredients that are freely available.
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All the recipes here use just five ingredients and are ready in well under an hour.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a list of ingredients
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Coconut is a basic ingredient for many curries and other Asian dishes.
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The main ingredient was spicy ground pork.
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The main ingredients can be prepared and frozen in advance.
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Weigh all the ingredients before you start.