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Definition of Blueprint
1. Noun. Something intended as a guide for making something else. "A pattern for a skirt"
2. Verb. Make a blueprint of.
3. Noun. Photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc..
Definition of Blueprint
1. Noun. 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. ¹
2. Noun. A print produced with this process. ¹
3. Noun. (architecture engineering by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form). ¹
4. Noun. (informal by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative. ¹
5. Verb. To make a blueprint for. ¹
6. Verb. To make a detailed operational plan for. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blueprint
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blueprint
Literary usage of Blueprint
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Carpentry and Contracting: A Practical Reference Work on Carpentry, Building by American Technical Society (1919)
"A blueprint as used by engineers and by workmen in the various industries is a
reproduction of what is known as a working drawing. ..."
2. Substitute Care Providers: Helping Abused & Neglected Chldren by Kenneth Watson (1994)
"The blueprint, the result of more than a year of deliberations by the 49- ...
The blueprint details the failure of our present family foster care system and ..."
3. Blueprints for Managed Care: Mental Healthcare Concepts and Structure by Frank D. McGuirk, Andrew B. Keller, Colette Croze (1995)
"For each state, we will present blueprint* of the system prior to the implementation
of these reforms and contrast these with blueprint« of the system after ..."
4. Blueprinting by John Frank Friese (1919)
"blueprint Papers. — Only the simple blue process papers will receive attention
... Prepared blueprint paper is generally of a light greenish- yellow tint. ..."
5. Applied Mechanical Drawing for First and Second Year Classes in High Schools by Frank Elliott Mathewson, Judson Lloyd Stewart (1911)
"The blueprint. If an original drawing is used in the shop it is liable to become
soiled, mislaid and perhaps destroyed, thus leaving no permanent record of ..."
6. The American Machinist Shop Note Book: A Collection of Articles by E.A. Suverkrop (1919)
"SPEEDING UP THE OLD blueprint MACHINE In a shop where the writer was employed
... We had trouble with our blueprint boys, who left us at the rate of about ..."
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