blueprint

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Synonyms: bluepoint, blue print, blue point, blueprints

Antonyms: bluepoint, blue print, blue point, blueprints

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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 [[drawing]]s, now largely replaced by other technologies.
2. A [[print]] produced with this process.
3. {{lb|en|architecture|engineering|by extension}} A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
4. {{lb|en|informal|by extension}} Any detailed [[plan]], whether literal or figurative.

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To make a blueprint for.
2. {{lb|en|transitive|figuratively}} To [[make]] a [[detailed]] [[operational]] [[plan]] for; to [[design]] or [[plan out]].

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