different between conception vs blueprint

English

Etymology

From Middle English concepcioun, borrowed from Old French conception, from Latin concepti? (“a comprehending, a collection, composition, an expression, also a becoming pregnant”), from concipi?, past participle conceptus (“conceive”); see conceive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?p??n/

Noun

conception (countable and uncountable, plural conceptions)

1. The act of conceiving.
2. The state of being conceived; the beginning.
3. The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
4. The start of pregnancy.
5. The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
6. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception; the ability to form mental abstractions.
7. An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

Antonyms

• misconception

Coordinate terms

• inception

Related terms

• conceive
• concept

Translations

See also

• contraception

References

• conception in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• conception in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• nonectopic

French

Etymology

From Old French conception, concepcion, borrowed from Latin conceptio, conceptionem (“comprehension, understanding”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s?p.sj??/

Noun

conception f (plural conceptions)

1. conception (of a child)
2. conception (beginning, start)
3. ability to understand
4. viewpoint; angle
5. concept, idea

Related terms

• concept
• concevoir

Further reading

• “conception” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

• concepcion

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin conceptio, conceptionem (“comprehension, understanding”).

Noun

conception f (oblique plural conceptions, nominative singular conception, nominative plural conceptions)

1. conception (of a child)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: concepcioun, concepcion, concepciun, concepcyon, consepcioun
  • English: conception
• French: conception

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.

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