blueprint

A blueprint is defined as a copy of a building or engineering plan, reproduced with white lines on a blue background, or detailed plan of action.

(noun)

An example of a blueprint is a construction worker's diagram of building plans for a new home.

The definition of blueprint means to make a copy of a building plan, or to make a detailed plan.

(verb)

An example of blueprint is to draw a to scale a home that is to be built and then photocopy the drawing using the blueprint process.

See blueprint in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a photographic reproduction in white on a blue background, as of architectural or engineering plans
any exact or detailed plan or outline

transitive verb

to make a blueprint of

See blueprint in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A contact print of a drawing or other image rendered as white lines on a blue background, especially such a print of an architectural plan or technical drawing. Also called cyanotype.
A mechanical drawing produced by any of various similar photographic processes, such as one that creates blue or black lines on a white background.
A detailed plan of action. See Synonyms at plan.
A model or prototype.

transitive verb blue·print·ed, blue·print·ing, blue·prints