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# ingredient

noun (an ingredient, ingredients)

«ingredient» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. An ingredient is one of the foods or things that are mixed together to make a dish, like flour and eggs in a cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#m1)
2. An ingredient is one of the parts or qualities that make something happen or succeed (the ingredients of a good story). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#m2)

### In the lessons

In cooking and maths, recipes list ingredients with amounts; doubling a recipe means doubling every ingredient, and halving it means halving every one. In health lessons, food labels list ingredients in order from most to least, and show allergens like nuts, milk or gluten. In writing lessons, the ingredients of a good story are characters, setting and a problem. Phrases: list of ingredients, main ingredient, key ingredient, secret ingredient.

### Examples

- Flour, sugar, eggs and butter are the ingredients of the cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#x1)
- Read the list of ingredients to check for nuts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#x2)
- The secret ingredient in Grandma's soup is a pinch of ginger. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#x3)
- We weighed all the ingredients before baking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#x4)
- The recipe needs 200 grams of flour, so for a double batch we need 400 grams. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#x5)
- Kindness is an important ingredient of friendship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#x6)
- The main ingredient on the label comes first. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/#x7)

### Note

Countable: an ingredient, ingredients. In maths recipe problems, scale every ingredient by the same number (same ratio). On food labels, ingredients are listed from the largest amount to the smallest.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «ingredient» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingredient/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«ingredient» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ingredient.html) on Mova free.