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blueprinting

[bloo-prin-ting]
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noun Automotive Slang.
  1. the procedure of improving the performance of an engine by dismantling and then rebuilding the reciprocating parts so that they meet exact tolerances.
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Origin of blueprinting

1815–25, for literal sense; blueprint + -ing1

blueprint

[bloo-print]
noun
  1. a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  2. a print made by this process.
  3. a detailed outline or plan of action: a blueprint for success.
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verb (used with object)
  1. to make a blueprint of or for.
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Origin of blueprint

First recorded in 1885–90; blue + print
Related formsblue·print·er, noun
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British Dictionary definitions for blueprinting

blueprint

noun
  1. Also called: cyanotype a photographic print of plans, technical drawings, etc, consisting of white lines on a blue background
  2. an original plan or prototype that influences subsequent design or practicethe Montessori method was the blueprint for education in the 1940s
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verb
  1. (tr) to make a blueprint of (a plan)
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Word Origin and History for blueprinting

blueprint

n.

also blue-print, 1882, from blue (1) + print (n.). The process uses blue on white, or white on blue. Figurative sense of "detailed plan" is attested from 1926. As a verb by 1939.

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