different between fingerprint vs blueprint

English

Alternative forms

• finger-print

Etymology

From finger +? print.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f?????p??nt/

Noun

fingerprint (plural fingerprints)

1. The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual.
2. The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.
   • 1974, Patricia Highsmith, Ripley's Game, chapter 7

     Nervously, he wiped the gun of fingerprints real and imaginary with the stocking-covered fingers.
3. (computing) Unique identification for public key in asymmetric cryptosystem.
4. A unique combination of features that serves as an identification of something.
5. A trace that gives evidence of someone's involvement.

Hyponyms

• thumbprint

Derived terms

• fingerprint analysis
• fingerprint recognition

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See also

• (computing): hash

Verb

fingerprint (third-person singular simple present fingerprints, present participle fingerprinting, simple past and past participle fingerprinted)

1. (transitive) To take somebody's fingerprints.

   The jail staff fingerprints its inmates routinely
2. (transitive) To identify something uniquely by a combination of measurements.

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See also

• dactylography
• biometrics

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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