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blueprinting

4.9

Making paper copies of drawings that show white lines on blue paper

noun
/ˈbluːprɪntɪŋ/

Archaic

: copiado de planos

The architect used the blueprinting method to create detailed plans for the new building.

Examples

Before construction began, the engineer reviewed the blueprinting to ensure everything was accurate.
He learned how to read blueprinting so he could understand the designs for the renovation project.
It's not like going to town meetings and reading blueprints or for plumbing facilities.
He had all of these things wrong in his house because he did not have the blueprints for his house.
And about the same time I was doing that, a guy released the blueprints to print a fully functional handgun.
But with blueprints where you're reading scripted stuff, pushing out that extra bit.

Surface Forms

blueprinting singular

blueprintings plural

Morphology

blueprinting = blueprint (transparent) = blue + print + ing

This is a straightforward -ing nominalization from blueprint, and the sense closely follows the literal blueprinting process.

Etymology

Blueprinting comes from the old copying method called a blueprint, which produced white lines on a blue background to copy technical drawings; so blueprinting originally meant the act of making those blue copies and later came to mean making copies of plans.