blueprint

Meaning

Noun

1. 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.
2. A print produced with this process.
3. (broadly) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
4. (broadly, informal) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Verb

1. (transitive) To make a blueprint for.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out.

Synonyms

plan

draft

design

pattern

drawing

diagram

scheme

project

programme

sketch

draught

schedule

chart

💹

duplicate

effort

engineer

enterprise

illustration

intend

job

labor

labour

layout

lay out

make

make up

manakin

manifold

manikin

mannikin

map out

mastermind

mock-up

model

modeling

modelling

operation

original

picture

plans

plot

program

replica

replication

schema

schematic

stamp

task

think

🤔

transcript

Translations

Blaupause

Plan

blauwdruk

cianografia

projeto

planta

🌱

plan

modèle

desenho

esquema

programma

Lichtpause

piano

projet

diseño

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/

Etymology

From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.