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Framework vs Blueprint - What's the difference?

framework | blueprint |

As nouns the difference between framework and blueprint

is that framework is   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size while blueprint is 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.

As a verb blueprint is

to make a blueprint for.

framework

English

(wikipedia framework)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (literally)   The arrangement of support beams that represent a building's general shape and size.
  • (figuratively)   The larger branches of a tree that determine its shape.
  • (figuratively, especially in, computing)   A basic conceptual structure.
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    These ‘three principles of connexion’ comprise the framework of principles in Hume's account of the association of ideas.
  • (literally)   The identification and categorisation of processes or steps that constitute a complex task or mindset in order to render explicit the tacit and implicit.

    • Derived terms

    * architectural framework * framework agreement * software framework

    blueprint

    English

    (wikipedia blueprint)

    Alternative forms

    * blue print, blue-print

    Noun

    (en 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.
  • A print produced with this process.
  • (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
  • (informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

    • Synonyms

    * (paper-based technical drawing) cyanotype, schematic * (detailed technical drawing) schematic * (informal) road map, schematic, plan, layout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a blueprint for.
    • The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
  • To make a detailed operational plan for.
    • They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.