blueprint

A detailed plan that explains how to achieve something.

• We need a blueprint for change.
• The report provides a blueprint for improving schools.
• They used the successful project as a blueprint for future work.

How to use it: blueprint for something (The report offers a blueprint for future development.)

Similar words: plan, scheme, strategy

Common phrases: blueprint for success, blueprint for reform, provide a blueprint

A detailed drawing that shows how a building or machine should be made.

• The architect drew a blueprint.
• These blueprints show where the walls will go.
• Engineers checked the machine’s blueprint before building it.

How to use it: blueprint for something (The architect showed us the blueprint for the house.)

Similar words: plan, design drawing

Common phrases: building blueprint, architectural blueprint, blueprint for something

A copy of a drawing made with a process that produces white lines on blue paper.

• The blueprint had white lines.
• Sunlight had faded the old blueprint.
• This blueprint was made from an engineer’s original drawing.

Similar words: cyanotype

Common phrases: original blueprint, blueprint copy, faded blueprint

To make a detailed drawing or plan showing how something will be built or done.

• The engineer blueprinted the machine.
• They are blueprinting the new factory layout.
• She blueprinted the renovation before any work began.

Similar words: plan, design

Common phrases: blueprint a building, blueprint a project, blueprint something carefully

To plan carefully how something will be built or done.

• We need to blueprint the project first.
• The engineers blueprinted every stage of construction.
• Who will blueprint the new training system?

Similar words: plan, design, map out

Common phrases: blueprint a project, blueprint a system, blueprint something carefully