Blueprint vs. Plan

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.

Plannoun

A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

Plannoun

A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

Plannoun

A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

Plannoun

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

Plannoun

A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an Internet plan.

Planverb

(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).

Planverb

(transitive) To create a plan for.

Planverb

(intransitive) To intend.

Planverb

See plan on.

Planverb

(intransitive) To make a plan.

Plannoun

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.

Plannoun

A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.

Plannoun

A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

Planverb

To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.

Planverb

To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.

Plannoun

a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;

Plannoun

an arrangement scheme;

Plannoun

scale drawing of a structure;

Planverb

have the will and intention to carry out some action;

Planverb

make plans for something;

Planverb

make or work out a plan for; devise;

Planverb

make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;

Plan

A plan is typically any diagram or list of steps with details of timing and resources, used to achieve an objective to do something. It is commonly understood as a temporal set of intended actions through which one expects to achieve a goal.