The difference between Blueprint and Scheme
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 scheme means a systematic plan of future action.
When used as verbs, blueprint means to make a blueprint for, whereas scheme means to plot, or contrive a plan.
check bellow for the other definitions of Blueprint and Scheme
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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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Scheme as a noun:
A systematic plan of future action.
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Scheme as a noun:
A plot or secret, devious plan.
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Scheme as a noun:
An orderly combination of related parts.
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Scheme as a noun:
A chart or diagram of a system or object.
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Scheme as a noun (mathematics):
A type of topological space.
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Scheme as a noun (UK, chiefly, Scotland):
A council housing estate.
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Scheme as a noun (rhetoric):
An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.
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Scheme as a noun (astrology):
A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.
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Scheme as a noun (internet):
Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.
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Scheme as a noun (UK, pensions):
A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.
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Scheme as a verb (intransitive):
To plot, or contrive a plan.