The difference between Blueprint and Plan

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 plan means a drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

When used as verbs, blueprint means to make a blueprint for, whereas plan means to design (a building, machine, etc.).


check bellow for the other definitions of Blueprint and Plan

  1. 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.

  2. Blueprint as a noun:

    A print produced with this process.

  3. Blueprint as a noun (architecture, engineering, by extension):

    A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

  4. Blueprint as a noun (informal, by extension):

    Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

  1. Blueprint as a verb:

    To make a blueprint for.

    Examples:

    "The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off."

  2. Blueprint as a verb:

    To make a detailed operational plan for.

    Examples:

    "They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation."

  1. Plan as a noun:

    A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.

    Examples:

    "The plans for many important buildings were once publicly available."

  2. Plan as a noun:

    A set of intended actions, usually mutually related, through which one expects to achieve a goal.

    Examples:

    "He didn't really have a plan; he had a goal and a habit of control."

  3. Plan as a noun:

    A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

    Examples:

    "Seen in plan, the building had numerous passageways not apparent to visitors."

  4. Plan as a noun:

    A method; a way of procedure; a custom.

  5. Plan as a noun:

    A subscription to a service.

    Examples:

    "a phone plan'"

    "an Internet plan'"

  1. Plan as a verb (transitive):

    To design (a building, machine, etc.).

    Examples:

    "The architect planned the building for the client."

  2. Plan as a verb (transitive):

    To create a plan for.

    Examples:

    "They jointly planned the project in phases, with good detail for the first month."

  3. Plan as a verb (intransitive):

    To intend.

    Examples:

    "He planned to go, but work intervened."

  4. Plan as a verb:

    See plan on.

    Examples:

    "I was planning on going, but something came up."

  5. Plan as a verb (intransitive):

    To make a plan.

    Examples:

    "They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies."