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blue-print, blueprint, n.
Also blue print.
[blue a. 1.]
1. (A process for making) a photographic print composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground, used chiefly in copying plans, machine-drawings, etc.; also, a blue-toned photograph.
1886Electrician XVI. 466/2 The Western Edison Light Company of Chicago..have adopted an arrangement for taking blue print by electric light. 1887U.S. Postal Laws & Reg. §364. 152 ‘Blue prints’ reproduced only as copies of the original. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 102 Blue Prints can be obtained on albumenised paper. 1936Economist 15 Feb. 351/2 Blue-prints were drawn for ‘mastodon’ capital ships of 60,000 tons, and for cruisers of 20,000 tons. 1943J. S. Huxley TVA 141 Specifications for TVA Demountable Defense Houses (pp. v + 42, illus. and blueprints).
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1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 211/2 Blue print paper. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl. I. 147/2 Electric blue-print machine, a machine in which the sensitized paper is exposed behind tracings to a series of electric lights instead of to sunlight. 1923H. A. Maddox Dict. Stationery 14 Blueprint paper, a type of photographic paper used for taking rapid duplicates from machine plans, etc., the lines of the drawing developing out in white relief against a solid blue background or vice versa.
2. fig. A (detailed) plan or scheme; a pattern.
1926Spectator 11 Sept. 385/1 Surely he can complete his life by giving us the blue-prints of the millennium. 1939Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Feb. 87/2 Blue-prints of a new society come with better grace from Mr. Wells than from any other contemporary novelist. 1942J. S. Huxley in Fortune Dec. 152/2 To nail some elaborate blue-print of international organization to our masthead. |