The word ‘recipient’ sounds weird here because normally (I would think) a recipient is a person, and the instructions are obviously talking about a thing (a container or ‘receptacle’). The words ‘recipient’ and ‘receptacle’ are related but I think there’s good reason not to treat them as interchangeable. See also: ‘recipe’, ‘receipt’, ‘reception’, and ‘receiver’. … Continue reading Words related to ‘receive’