blueprint
pronunciation
How to pronounce blueprint in British English:
UK [ˈbluːprɪnt]
How to pronounce blueprint in American English:
US [ˈbluːprɪnt]
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- Noun:
- something intended as a guide for making something else
- photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.
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- Verb:
- make a blueprint of
Word Origin
- blueprint (n.)
- also blue-print, 1882, from blue (1) + print (n.). The process uses blue on white, or white on blue. Figurative sense of "detailed plan" is attested from 1926. As a verb by 1939.
Example
- 1. He says he finds that blueprint method too limiting .
- 2. Jobs shared his blueprint for transforming apple drawing a four-cell matrix on the whiteboard .
- 3. That is a blueprint for economic stagnation .
- 4. Perhaps this is a blueprint for art .
- 5. It is a crisp and radical blueprint .