blueprint

== English == === Alternative forms === blue print, blue-print === Etymology === From blue +‎ print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842. === Pronunciation === enPR: blo͞o'prĭnt", IPA(key): /ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/ Rhymes: -ɪnt === Noun === blueprint (plural blueprints) 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. 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 ==== Translations ==== === Verb === blueprint (third-person singular simple present blueprints, present participle blueprinting, simple past and past participle blueprinted) (transitive) To make a blueprint for. (transitive, figuratively) To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====