Blueprint vs. Layout

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.

Layoutnoun

A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.

Layoutnoun

A plan for such arrangement.

Layoutnoun

The act of laying out something.

Layoutnoun

(publishing) The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.

Layoutnoun

(engineering) A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.

Layoutnoun

(electronics) A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.

Layoutnoun

a plan or design of something that is laid out

Layoutnoun

the act of laying out (as by making plans for something)

Layoutnoun

the way in which the parts of something are arranged or laid out

Layoutnoun

the way in which text or pictures are set out on a page

Layoutnoun

the process of setting out material on a page

Layoutnoun

a thing arranged or set out in a particular way