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