bluelining

Verb

blueline (third-person singular simple present bluelines, present participle bluelining, simple past and past participle bluelined)

1. To create the bluelines for material that is about to be printed.
   • It was decided to make the color separation in the plotting, in order to eliminate bluelining and redrafting.1934, Photogrammetric Engineering - Volumes 1-3, page 14
2. To check the bluelines before printing material.
   • Although claiming editorship, my involvement amounted to occasional 'bluelining', a deal of 'cutting-to-fit' and the general work required in designing and laying-out a book.1990, Mary Ellen Freeman, Ted Smith, Poets And Pals Of Picardy, page xi
3. To veto a portion of a budget.
   • In 1961 the Governor bluelined the funds.1962, California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Water, Subcommittee Reports and Reports on Referred Bills
4. To edit a legal document.
   • It seems sensible under a range of circumstances to have that power to be able to blueline them— or redline them, as the case may be— so that they are removed from the register.2007, Australia. Parliament. Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: Senate, page 21
5. To mark on a patient's body where the surgical incision is to be made.
   • Bone removal was continued in order to "blueline" the vestibule and then extended superiorly over the vestibule until Bill's bar was exposed.1988, Transactions of the American Otological Society - Volume 76, page 95
6. (Canada, US) To designate a certain area as representing one in which investment is risky.
   • Not unlike the negative results of the bluelining and steering practices of many banks and real estate firms, such efforts leave bitterness in their wake and serve to bolster the worst fears and prejudices of both races.1979, Wade Clark Roof, Race and residence in American cities, page 130

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