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Schematic vs Blueprint - What's the difference?

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Blueprint is a synonym of schematic.



As nouns the difference between schematic and blueprint

is that schematic is a drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level 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 schematic

is represented simply.

As a verb blueprint is

to make a blueprint for.

schematic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • represented simply
  • sketchy, incomplete
  • * 1902 , , Varieties of Religious Experience ,
    • Dr. Starbuck gives an interesting, and it seems to me a true, account -- so far as conceptions so schematic can claim truth at all...
  • relating to a schema
  • *
    • Given the terminology we have introduced here, we can say that all of the bracketed phrases in (3) above are of the schematic form (4) below:
    (4)    Specifier + Head + Complement
    Now, we have already argued in the case of Noun Phrases that a Head Noun together with its Complement form an N-bar; and that this N-bar together with its Specifier ( = Determiner) forms an N-double-bar.

    Noun

    (wikipedia schematic) (en noun)
  • A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.
    • I'll have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.

    Synonyms

    * diagram

    Anagrams

    *

    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.