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blue-print

blue-print is the alternative spelling of blueprint.

Meaning of blueprint

Noun

blueprint (plural blueprints)

  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.
  2. A print produced with this process.
  3. (broadly) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
    Synonyms:
    cyanotype, schematic
  4. (broadly, informal) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
    • Ain't got no blueprint, just a purpose and a wrecking ball!2018, Jhariah Clare, “City of Ashes”, in The Great Tale of How I Ruined it All

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Forms of blue-print

pluralblue-prints

Questions about blue-print

What is blue-print the alternative spelling of?
Blue-print is the alternative spelling of blueprint.

Words near blue-print in the dictionary

  1. blue-pilling
  2. blue-pills
  3. blue-plate
  4. blue-plate special
  5. blue-plate specials
  6. blue-print
  7. blue-prints
  8. blue-red
  9. blue-ribbon
  10. blue-ringed octopi
  11. blue-ringed octopii

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue-print (page history and authors); blueprint (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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