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blueprint noun [ ˈbluːprɪnt ]

• a design plan or other technical drawing.
• "they are redrawing office blueprints to include large shared spaces"
Similar: plan, design, draft, diagram, drawing, scale drawing, outline, sketch, pattern, map, layout, representation, technical drawing,

blueprint verb

• draw up (a plan or model).
• "the landscape architect blueprinted a ten-year plan for regeneration of the magnificent formal gardens"
Origin: late 19th century: from the original process in which prints were composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground.


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