BLUEPRINT

blueprint

(noun) photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

blueprint, design, pattern

(noun) something intended as a guide for making something else; “a blueprint for a house”; “a pattern for a skirt”

blueprint, draft, draught

(verb) make a blueprint of

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

blueprint (plural blueprints)

A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

A print produced with this process.

(architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

(informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Synonyms

• (paper-based technical drawing): cyanotype, schematic

• (detailed technical drawing): schematic

• (informal): road map, schematic, plan, layout

Verb

blueprint (third-person singular simple present blueprints, present participle blueprinting, simple past and past participle blueprinted)

To make a blueprint for.

To make a detailed operational plan for.

Source: Wiktionary


Blue"print.

Definition: See under Print.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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