Blueprint vs. Plan
Difference Between Blueprint and Plan
Blueprintnoun
A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
Plannoun
A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available.Blueprintnoun
A print produced with this process.
Plannoun
A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.
He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control.Blueprintnoun
A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
Plannoun
A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.
Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors.Blueprintnoun
Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
Plannoun
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
Blueprintverb
To make a blueprint for.
The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.Plannoun
A subscription to a service; e.g., a phone plan, an Internet plan.
Blueprintverb
To make a detailed operational plan for.
They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.Planverb
(transitive) To design (a building, machine, etc.).
The architect planned the building for the client.Blueprintnoun
something intended as a guide for making something else;
a blueprint for a housea pattern for a skirtPlanverb
(transitive) To create a plan for.
They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month.Blueprintnoun
photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.
Planverb
(intransitive) To intend.
He planned to go, but work intervened.Blueprintverb
make a blueprint of
Planverb
See plan on.
I was planning on going, but something came up.Planverb
(intransitive) To make a plan.
They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies.Plannoun
a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished;
they drew up a six-step planthey discussed plans for a new bond issuePlannoun
an arrangement scheme;
the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficultit was an excellent design for livinga plan for seating guestsPlannoun
scale drawing of a structure;
the plans for City Hall were on filePlanverb
have the will and intention to carry out some action;
He plans to be in graduate school next yearThe rebels had planned turmoil and confusionPlanverb
make plans for something;
He is planning a trip with his familyPlanverb
make or work out a plan for; devise;
They contrived to murder their bossdesign a new sales strategyplan an attackPlanverb
make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
design a better mousetrapplan the new wing of the museum
