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
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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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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."
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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."
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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."
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Plan as a noun:
A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
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Plan as a noun:
A subscription to a service.
Examples:
"a phone plan'"
"an Internet plan'"
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Plan as a verb (transitive):
To design (a building, machine, etc.).
Examples:
"The architect planned the building for the client."
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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."
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Plan as a verb (intransitive):
To intend.
Examples:
"He planned to go, but work intervened."
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Plan as a verb:
See plan on.
Examples:
"I was planning on going, but something came up."
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Plan as a verb (intransitive):
To make a plan.
Examples:
"They planned for the worst, bringing lots of emergency supplies."