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单词 blueprint
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blueprint

noun
/ˈbluːprɪnt/
/ˈbluːprɪnt/
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  1. a photographic print of a plan for a building or a machine, with white lines on a blue background
    • blueprints of a new aircraft
    Extra Examples
    • The blueprint showed plans for an underground nuclear shelter.
    • The watch was designed according to a 19th century blueprint.
    Topics Engineeringc2, Buildingsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • detailed
    • original
    • new
    verb + blueprint
    • have
    • create
    • develop
    preposition
    • blueprint for
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  2. blueprint (for something) a plan which shows what can be achieved and how it can be achieved
    • a blueprint for the privatization of healthcare
    Extra Examples
    • The charter should serve as a blueprint for cooperation.
    • The government does not have a blueprint for reform.
    • a blueprint for change
    • The government has published a blueprint for an integrated transport system.
    • They see the device as the blueprint for all future chip design.
    Topics Successc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • detailed
    • original
    • new
    verb + blueprint
    • have
    • create
    • develop
    preposition
    • blueprint for
    See full entry
  3. (specialist) the pattern in every living cell, which decides how the plant, animal or person will develop and what it will look like
    • DNA carries the genetic blueprint which tells any organism how to build itself.
    Topics Biologyc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • detailed
    • original
    • new
    verb + blueprint
    • have
    • create
    • develop
    preposition
    • blueprint for
    See full entry
  4. Word Originlate 19th cent.: from the original process in which prints were composed of white lines on a blue ground or of blue lines on a white ground.
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