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Blueprint vs Instruction - What's the difference?

blueprint | instruction |

As nouns the difference between blueprint and instruction

is that 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 while instruction is (lb) the act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.

As a verb blueprint

is to make a blueprint for.

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.

    instruction

    Noun

  • (lb) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
  • :
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”}}
  • (lb) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:If my instructions may be your guide.
  • (lb) An order or command.
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
  • (lb) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
  • Synonyms

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