Contrivance vs Blueprint - What's the difference?
contrivance | blueprint | Related terms |
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
* 2005 , .
something overly artful or artificial
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.
Contrivance is a related term of blueprint.
As nouns the difference between contrivance and blueprint
is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task 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.contrivance
English
Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
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* *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.