Photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

Usage examples of blueprint.

In the morning Tanner and his colleagues argued about strain thresholds and engine capacities, drew up rough blueprints, and came up with lists of questions that they put to Aum, shyly, in the afternoon.

Safe was a hypotheticalcryptography scenario in which a safe builder wrote blueprints foran unbreakable safe.

Even then, however, the details of the Fourierist blueprint for the future had seemed to him rather ridiculous, and he had agreed with his friend Valerian Maikov that the phalanstery hardly left any leeway for the freedom of the individual.

One day Dylan saw one scratching some primitive botched skully board, not on a slate but on a pebbly square of poured concrete, hopeless, like a fallout survivor dim with radiation sickness sketching a blueprint for reinvention of the wheel.

Strange, he thought, how Sooey Wan could understand him without a blueprint and directions for using!

No speciation, all working from one genetic blueprint, making a few hundred different forms.

Just as a building lay unrealized within rolled blueprints, so a piece of music could rest unmanifested until passed through the human mind into the hands or voice to be reborn.

Also, the dinner party gives you a blueprint for moving the plot forward: appetizers, main course, dessert.

Ac-cording to the blueprints, the vault is located directly under the hydrotherapy rooms, close enough, apparently, for the stone to have a restorative effect.

He had prepared well: he had located the collection of blueprints of historically important chateaux, maintained at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, and had studied the layout of the Chateau de Saint-Meurice.

The stereotypical image of the civil engineer is one of a broad-shouldered, barrel-chested man with a blueprint in one hand and a protractor in the other.

He worked out of his cabin, revising his blueprints, receiving daily reports via satphone from his foremen.

Does each termite possess a fragment of blueprint, or is the whole design, arch by arch, encoded in his DNA?

She was reminded of the taaphur, a sea creature that existed now only as a genetic blueprint in the memory qahsa of the shapers and in its biotechnological derivatives.

She was reminded of the taaphur, a sea crea-ture that existed now only as a genetic blueprint in the memory qahsa of the shapers and in its biotechnological derivatives.