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