The difference between Blueprint and Layout
When used as nouns, blueprint means 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, whereas layout means a structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
Blueprint is also verb with the meaning: to make a blueprint for.
check bellow for the other definitions of Blueprint and Layout
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Blueprint as a noun:
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.
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Blueprint as a noun:
A print produced with this process.
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Blueprint as a noun (architecture, engineering, by extension):
A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
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Blueprint as a noun (informal, by extension):
Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.
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Blueprint as a verb:
To make a blueprint for.
Examples:
"The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off."
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Blueprint as a verb:
To make a detailed operational plan for.
Examples:
"They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation."
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Layout as a noun:
A structured arrangement of items within certain limits.
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Layout as a noun:
A plan for such arrangement.
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Layout as a noun:
The act of laying out something.
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Layout as a noun (publishing):
The process of arranging editorial content, advertising, graphics and other information to fit within certain constraints.
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Layout as a noun (engineering):
A map or a drawing of a construction site showing the position of roads, buildings or other constructions.
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Layout as a noun (electronics):
A specification of an integrated circuit showing the position of the physical components that will implement the schematic in silicon.