different between blueprint vs plans

English

Alternative forms

• blue print, blue-print

Etymology

blue +? print

Pronunciation

• enPR: blo?o'pr?nt", IPA^(key): /?blu??p??nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

blueprint (plural blueprints)

1. A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
2. A print produced with this process.
3. (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
4. (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)

1. To make a blueprint for.

   The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.

2. To make a detailed operational plan for.

   They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plænz/
• Rhymes: -ænz

Verb

plans

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of plan

Noun

plans

1. plural of plan

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?plans/
• Rhymes: -ans

Noun

plans

1. plural of pla

Cornish

Noun

plans m (plural plansow)

1. plant

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl??/
• Homophone: plan

Adjective

plans

1. masculine plural of plan

Friulian

Noun

plans

1. plural of plan

Occitan

Noun

plans

1. plural of plan

Adjective

plans

1. masculine plural of plan

Swedish

Noun

plans

1. indefinite genitive singular of plan
2. indefinite genitive plural of plan