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Print vs Blueprint - What's the difference?

print | blueprint |

As verbs the difference between print and blueprint

is that print is to produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off while blueprint is to make a blueprint for.

As nouns the difference between print and blueprint

is that print is books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium 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 an adjective print

is of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

print

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out'' or ''off : print out, print off.
    • Print the draft double-spaced so we can mark changes between the lines.
  • To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
    • The circuitry is printed onto the semiconductor surface.
  • (ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
    • Print your name here and sign below.
    I'm only in grade 2, so I only know how to print .
  • (ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
    • How could they print an unfounded rumour like that?
  • * Alexander Pope
    • From the moment he prints , he must expect to hear no more truth.
  • To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
    • to print calico
  • To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
  • * Surrey
    • A look will print a thought that never may remove.
  • * Sir John Beaumont
    • Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, / Which in that field young Edward's sword did print .
  • * Roscommon
    • some footsteps printed in the clay
  • To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
  • * Dryden
    • Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, / That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod.

    Derived terms

    * printer * printing form * printing press

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
    • Three citations are required for each meaning, including one in print .
    TV and the internet haven't killed print .
  • (uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
    • Write in print using block letters.
  • (uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
    • The print is too small for me to read.
  • A visible impression on a surface.
    • Using a crayon, the girl made a print of the leaf under the page.
  • A fingerprint.
    • Did the police find any prints at the scene?
  • A footprint.
  • (visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
  • (photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
  • (motion pictures) A copy of a film that can be projected.
  • Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.

    • Antonyms

    * (writing without connected letters) cursive

    Derived terms

    * fine print * fingerprint * footprint * in print * newsprint * out of print * pawprint * printmaking * printout * small print * thumbprint

    External links

    * (Print) ----

    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.