Difference between Receipt and Recipe

What is the difference between Receipt and Recipe?

Receipt as a noun is the act of receiving, or the fact of having been received while Recipe as a noun is a formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.

Receipt

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give or write a receipt (for something) To mark a bill as having been paid

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of receiving, or the fact of having been received The fact of having received a blow, injury etc. A quantity or amount received; takings A written acknowledgment that a specified article or sum of money has been received A recipe, instructions, prescription A receptacle A revenue office

Recipe

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions.Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result.Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.

We hope you now know whether to use Receipt or Recipe in your sentence.

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