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

  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. Scheme as a noun:

    A systematic plan of future action.

  2. Scheme as a noun:

    A plot or secret, devious plan.

  3. Scheme as a noun:

    An orderly combination of related parts.

  4. Scheme as a noun:

    A chart or diagram of a system or object.

  5. Scheme as a noun (mathematics):

    A type of topological space.

  6. Scheme as a noun (UK, chiefly, Scotland):

    A council housing estate.

  7. Scheme as a noun (rhetoric):

    An artful deviation from the ordinary arrangement of words.

  8. Scheme as a noun (astrology):

    A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

  9. Scheme as a noun (internet):

    Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

  10. Scheme as a noun (UK, pensions):

    A portfolio of pension plans with related benefits comprising multiple independent members.

  1. Scheme as a verb (intransitive):

    To plot, or contrive a plan.