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• n  something intended as a guide for making something else
  a blueprint for a house
• n  photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.
• v  make a blueprint of

• Miami's $200 million smart grid, which aims to connect every home and business in Miami-Dade County by 2011, may serve as a blueprint for a nationwide system.
• Michael Jackson's death should have provided a blueprint for how new media has overthrown old.
• But no one recognized that Turing's machine provided a blueprint for what would eventually become the electronic digital computer.

• design
• pattern
• draft
• draught

News & Articles

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• No Blueprint funds for Performing Arts Center
  By TaMaryn Waters | Democrat staff writer @tamarynwaters on Twitter -- The proposed Performing Arts Center project, marred with controversy for its high price in a wilted economy, was axed Thursday from projects to be considered for future Blueprint tax money.
  June 14, 2013 - Tallahassee Democrat
• Conservative groups release prosperity blueprint
  ATLANTA - A handful of conservative groups released what they call a blueprint for prosperity Wednesday at the Capitol. The blueprint argues for reduced government spending, greater school choice and raising the sales tax to allow for a lower income tax.
  June 13, 2013 - Athens Banner-Herald
• Blueprint Search Analytics Software Suite Takes the Guesswork out of the ROI of SEO Investments with Predictive ...
  Digital and search marketing leader RKG today announced it has added new SEO impact forecasting capability to the Blueprint software suite. The enhancement marks the first technica
  June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• President Bush in Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
  It's an economic blueprint for our future, a vision of America where growth is not based on real estate bubbles or over-leveraged banks, but on a firm foundation of investments in energy, education and healthcare that will lead to a real and... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA The Gazette (Montreal) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.montrealgazette.com/Obama%2Bteam%2Bsees%2Brebound%2Bthis%2Byear/1416367/story.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFsXWb4AiJMVXGrmIcqh5LowS-jxg Mar 22, 2009 11102 15441 blueprint The Ahtisaari plan is our blueprint forward," Bush said. "We'll watch to see how the events unfold today. The Kosovars are now independent."
• Chris Huhne in ZDNet Asia
  The government forgets that George Orwell's 1984 was a warning, and not a blueprint,said Huhne. "We are still a long way from living under the Stasi, but it beggars belief that is necessary to spy on one in every 78 adults."