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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.
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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."

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