blueprint

Plural: blueprints

Noun

• something intended as a guide for making something else
  • "a blueprint for a house"
• photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.
• 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.
• A print produced with this process.
• A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
• Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Verb

• make a blueprint of
• To make a blueprint for.
• To make a detailed operational plan for; to design or plan out.

Examples

• The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
• They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.

Synonyms

design, draft, draught, pattern, cyanotype, layout, plan, road map, schematic