Recipe vs Refund - What's the difference?
recipe | refund |
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
To return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.
(obsolete) To supply again with funds.
(obsolete, rare) To pour back.
An amount of money returned.
As nouns the difference between recipe and refund
is that recipe is while refund is an amount of money returned.As a verb refund is
to return (money) to (someone); to reimburse.recipe
English
(wikipedia recipe)Noun
(en noun)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
Anagrams
* ----refund
English
Verb
(en verb)- A governor, that had pillaged the people, was sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. — L'Estrange.
- If you find this computer for sale anywhere at a lower price, we'll refund you the difference.
- to refund a railroad loan
- Were the humours of the eye tinctured with any colour, they would refund that colour upon the object. — Ray.
Noun
(en noun)- If the camera is faulty, you can return it to the store where you bought it for a refund.