blueprint
noun/ˈbluːprɪnt/
/ˈbluːprɪnt/
- a photographic print of a plan for a building or a machine, with white lines on a blue background
- blueprints of a new aircraft
Extra ExamplesTopics Engineeringc2, Buildingsc2- The blueprint showed plans for an underground nuclear shelter.
- The watch was designed according to a 19th century blueprint.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- detailed
- original
- new
- …
- have
- create
- develop
- …
- blueprint for
- blueprint (for something) a plan which shows what can be achieved and how it can be achieved
- a blueprint for the privatization of healthcare
Extra ExamplesTopics Successc2- The charter should serve as a blueprint for cooperation.
- The government does not have a blueprint for reform.
- a blueprint for change
- The government has published a blueprint for an integrated transport system.
- They see the device as the blueprint for all future chip design.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- detailed
- original
- new
- …
- have
- create
- develop
- …
- blueprint for
- (specialist) the pattern in every living cell, which decides how the plant, animal or person will develop and what it will look like
- DNA carries the genetic blueprint which tells any organism how to build itself.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- detailed
- original
- new
- …
- have
- create
- develop
- …
- blueprint for
Word Originlate 19th cent.: 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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