Blueprint vs. Drawing

Blueprintnoun

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.

Blueprintnoun

A print produced with this process.

Blueprintnoun

A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

Blueprintnoun

Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Blueprintverb

To make a blueprint for.

Blueprintverb

To make a detailed operational plan for.

Blueprint

See under Print.

Blueprintnoun

something intended as a guide for making something else;

Blueprintnoun

photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

Blueprintverb

make a blueprint of

Blueprint

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies.

Drawingverb

present participle of draw

Drawingnoun

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

Drawingnoun

The act of producing such a picture.

Drawingnoun

Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.

Drawingnoun

The process of drawing or pulling something.

Drawingnoun

An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat).

Drawingnoun

A small portion of tea for steeping.

Drawingnoun

The act of pulling, or attracting.

Drawingnoun

The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

Drawingnoun

The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

Drawingnoun

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

Drawingnoun

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

Drawingnoun

an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine;

Drawingnoun

a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines;

Drawingnoun

the creation of artistic drawings;

Drawingnoun

players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots

Drawingnoun

act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source;

Drawingnoun

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses, and metals (such as silverpoint).