ingredient
28 08 2008Nouns
1. (n.) ingredient;
- a component of a mixture or compound;
2. (n.) component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient;
- an abstract part of something;
- “jealousy was a component of his character”; “two constituents of a musical composition are melody and harmony”; “the grammatical elements of a sentence”; “a key factor in her success”; “humor: an effective ingredient of a speech”;
3. (n.) fixings, ingredient;
- food that is a component of a mixture in cooking;
- “the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad”;
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