blueprint

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: blue=print
• COUNT in NET: 2 in 2 verses (in OT : 2 in 2 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

blueprint,  

 See under Print.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

blueprint, n. & v.
--n.
1 a photographic print of the final stage of engineering or other plans in white on a blue background.
2 a detailed plan, esp. in the early stages of a project or idea.
--v.tr. US work out (a programme, plan, etc.).

THESAURUS

blueprint

Photostat, Xerox, Xerox copy, agenda, alphabet, approach, arrange, arrangement, art, attack, batting order, bill, bill of fare, blow up, blowup, blue, blueprinting, brouillon, budget, calculation, calendar, card, carte du jour, cartoon, cast, catalog, catalogue raisonne, charactering, characterization, chart, charting, choreography, cold-type proof, color proof, computer proof, conception, contact printing, contrivance, conventional representation, copy, cyanotype, dance notation, delineation, demonstration, depiction, depictment, design, develop, device, devise, diagram, disposition, docket, dope out, draft, drama, drawing, ebauche, elevation, enlarge, enlargement, enterprise, envisagement, esquisse, exemplification, figuration, figure, figuring, foresight, forethought, foundry proof, galley, galley proof, game, game plan, glossy, graph, graphing, ground plan, guidelines, hieroglyphic, hologram, house plan, ichnography, iconography, idea, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, intention, lantern slide, lay off, lay out, layout, letter, limning, lineup, list of agenda, logogram, logograph, long-range plan, map, map out, mapping, mark off, mark out, master plan, matte, menu, method, methodology, microcopy, microprint, musical notation, notation, operations research, organization, outline, page proof, pattern, photocopy, photogravure, photostatic copy, pictogram, picturization, plan, planning, planning function, plate proof, playbill, plot, plot out, portraiture, portrayal, positive, prearrangement, prefigurement, presentment, press proof, print, printing, procedure, process, profile, program, program of action, program of operation, programma, progressive proof, project, projection, projection printing, proof, proof sheet, prospectus, protocol, pull, rationalization, realization, rendering, rendition, representation, repro proof, revise, roster, rough, schedule, schema, schematism, schematization, scheme, scheme of arrangement, score, script, semi-matte, set out, setup, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slate, slide, slip, stone proof, strategic plan, strategy, syllabary, symbol, system, systematization, tablature, table, table of contents, tactical plan, tactics, the big picture, the picture, transparency, trial impression, vandyke, way, working drawing, working plan, writing