Meaning

4 senses
  1. A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images by means of a photosensitive ferric compound, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.

    Diazotypie, Blaupause

    диазоти́пияdiazotípija, диазогра́фияdiazográfija

  2. A print produced with this process.

    Blaupause, Lichtpause

    светоко́пияsvetokópija, си́нькаsínʹka

  3. (broadly)A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

    Entwurf

    планplan, прое́ктprojékt, чертёжčertjóž

  4. (broadly, informal)Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

    Plan, Blaupause

    планplan, прое́ктprojékt

More definitions
  • photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.
  • something intended as a guide for making something else

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Have you seen the blueprints yet?

    deHast du die Blaupausen schon gesehen? — Waldelfe

  2. Tom wanted a closer look at the blueprints.

    deTom wollte sich die Blaupausen genauer ansehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. I brought the blueprints.

    deIch habe die Blaupausen mitgebracht. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. I'm just following the blueprints.

  5. Have you seen the blueprints?

    ruВы видели чертежи? — al42and

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
cyanotype reproduction process:
print produced by this process:
any detailed technical drawing:
Deutsch
By meaning 4
cyanotype reproduction process:
print produced by this process:
any detailed technical drawing:
any detailed plan of action:

Origin

From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.

From blue + print. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842.

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Forms

plural: blueprints

Synonyms

7 synonyms
paper-based technical drawing:cyanotypeschematic
Close in meaning
  • something intended as a guide for making something else:designpattern

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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