| ingredient | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. ingredient | a component of a mixture or compound. |
| ~ admixture, intermixture | an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base.; "the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure"; "a large intermixture of sand" |
| ~ base | the principal ingredient of a mixture.; "glycerinated gelatin is used as a base for many ointments"; "he told the painter that he wanted a yellow base with just a hint of green"; "everything she cooked seemed to have rice as the base" |
| ~ constituent, element, component | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system.; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" |
| n. (cognition) | 2. 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" |
| ~ be-all and end-all, be all and end all | the essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim.; "profit is the be-all and end-all of business" |
| ~ plot element | a component or element of the plot of a story. |
| ~ point | a geometric element that has position but no extension.; "a point is defined by its coordinates" |
| ~ division, section, part | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" |
| n. (food) | 3. fixings, ingredient | food that is a component of a mixture in cooking.; "the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad" |
| ~ dish | a particular item of prepared food.; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" |
| ~ food product, foodstuff | a substance that can be used or prepared for use as food. |
| ~ flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoning, seasoner | something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts. |
| ~ tomato paste | thick concentrated tomato puree. |
| ~ egg white, ovalbumin, albumen, white | the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water.; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" |
| ~ egg yolk, yolk | the yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen. |
| ~ malted milk | powder made of dried milk and malted cereals. |
| dilute | | |
| v. (change) | 1. cut, dilute, reduce, thin, thin out | lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.; "cut bourbon" |
| ~ weaken | lessen the strength of.; "The fever weakened his body" |
| ~ water down | make less strong or intense.; "water down the mixture" |
| v. (change) | 2. adulterate, debase, dilute, load, stretch | corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones.; "adulterate liquor" |
| ~ stretch, extend | increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance.; "stretch the soup by adding some more cream"; "extend the casserole with a little rice" |
| ~ spoil, corrupt | alter from the original. |
| ~ water down | thin by adding water to.; "They watered down the moonshine" |
| ~ doctor, doctor up, sophisticate | alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive.; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" |
| adj. | 3. dilute, diluted | reduced in strength or concentration or quality or purity.; "diluted alcohol"; "a dilute solution"; "dilute acetic acid" |
| ~ thinned, weakened, cut | mixed with water.; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned soup" |
| ~ washy, weak, watery | overly diluted; thin and insipid.; "washy coffee"; "watery milk"; "weak tea" |
| ~ white | (of coffee) having cream or milk added. |
| mingle | | |
| v. (contact) | 1. amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify | to bring or combine together or with something else.; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ aggregate, combine | gather in a mass, sum, or whole. |
| ~ concoct | make a concoction (of) by mixing. |
| ~ combine, compound | combine so as to form a whole; mix.; "compound the ingredients" |
| ~ blend, immingle, intermingle, intermix | combine into one.; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" |
| v. (social) | 2. mingle | get involved or mixed-up with.; "He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair" |
| v. (stative) | 3. jumble, mingle | be all mixed up or jumbled together.; "His words jumbled" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
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