Blueprint

Quick meaning: Blueprint is a noun meaning A print produced with this process.

Meaning

A print produced with this process.

More Meanings

1. (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
2. (informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
3. (transitive) To make a blueprint for.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out.
5. A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

Example Sentences

Ain't got no blueprint, just a purpose and a wrecking ball!

They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.

The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.

As a member of Black Sabbath, he helped draft the blueprints for heavy metal, but in conversation, he was always humble about his contributions to music.

Word Forms

• blueprints
• blue print
• blue-print
• blueprinting
• blueprinted

Synonyms for blueprint

Depending on context, synonyms include cyanotype, schematic, layout, draft, pattern, design.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include draught, design, pattern, draft, cyanotype, plan.

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