Recipe vs Blueprint - What's the difference?
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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
By extension, a plan or procedure to obtain a given end result.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Now especially, a set of instructions for making or preparing food dishes.
A set of conditions and parameters of an industrial process to obtain a given result.
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.
To make a blueprint for.
To make a detailed operational plan for.
As nouns the difference between recipe and blueprint
is that recipe is a formula for preparing or using a medicine; a prescription; also, a medicine prepared from such instructions 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.recipe
English
(wikipedia recipe)Noun
(en noun)A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
Anagrams
* ----blueprint
English
(wikipedia blueprint)Alternative forms
* blue print, blue-printNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (paper-based technical drawing) cyanotype, schematic * (detailed technical drawing) schematic * (informal) road map, schematic, plan, layoutVerb
(en verb)- The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
- They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.