blueprint
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈbluːprɪnt/
:
plan
- Our team developed a blueprint to improve employee satisfaction in the workplace.
- serve as a blueprint
- provide a blueprint
- a blueprint for action
You've given them a blueprint for how to turn your life around.
- You've given them a blueprint for how to turn your life around.
- You could give him the blueprint and he would not care.
- And it's a real blueprint that I think that people can learn.
- No, I just have a different blueprint, right.
- So it is the simple blueprint to starting in commercial real estate.
- Like I'm pretty much navigating the same exact business blueprint that got me here.
- And if you don't have a good blueprint, then you don't have a good film.
- So yeah, you can have that blueprint, but you cannot build it out like that.
- You almost begin to then unfold that blueprint in your life.
- So then they can have the basically blueprint of how to treat you.
- For one thing, the blueprint theory of genius.
- If your life conditions don't match your blueprint, your expectations, you're pain.
- I the, the, the map, the blueprint to achieve these goals.
Examples
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Thus, this issue represents a possible blueprint for new media departments and centers.
Academic text (1999) -
As we have seen, there was no single blueprint for the medieval castle.
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There is no blueprint for success.
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You could give him the blueprint and he would not care.
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My blueprint was in my head.
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This is a blueprint for countries like China and Iran.
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You've given them a blueprint for how to turn your life around.
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The past provides a useful blueprint for adaptation, and Waziristan provides good proof of this.
Academic text (2011) -
The classroom students create a blueprint to design and build their own cleanup machine using simple machines.
Academic text (2012) -
The architect presented a detailed blueprint for the new community center.
Synonyms
942
2.8
A plan or drawing that shows how something will look and work
904
2.5
A detailed drawing that shows the design of a building
127
1.4
A paper or cloth guide used to cut fabric for clothes
71
3.7
A set of actions that helps a team or person reach a goal
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3.5
A plan that shows the steps to reach a goal
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3.5
A plan that shows steps to reach a goal
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7.0
A simple drawing that shows how a plan or system works
A drawing that shows exact positions and measurements for building work
Compounds
- Archaic
1
5.8
Paper used to make blueprints that show white lines on a blue background
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word blueprint comes from blue + print because builders and engineers used those blue paper copies as exact guides, so a blueprint now means any detailed plan or model that shows how to make or do something.