blueprint

plan, schéma directeur

Plan expliquant précisément comment atteindre un objectif.

En anglais simple : A detailed plan that explains how to achieve something.

• We need a blueprint for change.
• The report provides a blueprint for improving schools.
• They used the successful project as a blueprint for future work.

Comment l'utiliser : blueprint for something (The report offers a blueprint for future development.)

Synonymes : plan, scheme, strategy

Expressions courantes : blueprint for success, blueprint for reform, provide a blueprint

plan

Dessin détaillé montrant comment construire un bâtiment ou une machine.

En anglais simple : A detailed drawing that shows how a building or machine should be made.

• The architect drew a blueprint.
• These blueprints show where the walls will go.
• Engineers checked the machine’s blueprint before building it.

Comment l'utiliser : blueprint for something (The architect showed us the blueprint for the house.)

Synonymes : plan, design drawing

Expressions courantes : building blueprint, architectural blueprint, blueprint for something

cyanotype, tirage bleu

Copie d’un dessin obtenue par un procédé produisant des lignes blanches sur du papier bleu.

En anglais simple : A copy of a drawing made with a process that produces white lines on blue paper.

• The blueprint had white lines.
• Sunlight had faded the old blueprint.
• This blueprint was made from an engineer’s original drawing.

Synonymes : cyanotype

Expressions courantes : original blueprint, blueprint copy, faded blueprint

dessiner les plans, concevoir

Faire un dessin ou un plan détaillé montrant comment construire ou réaliser quelque chose.

En anglais simple : To make a detailed drawing or plan showing how something will be built or done.

• The engineer blueprinted the machine.
• They are blueprinting the new factory layout.
• She blueprinted the renovation before any work began.

Synonymes : plan, design

Expressions courantes : blueprint a building, blueprint a project, blueprint something carefully

planifier, concevoir

Prévoir soigneusement comment quelque chose sera construit ou réalisé.

En anglais simple : To plan carefully how something will be built or done.

• We need to blueprint the project first.
• The engineers blueprinted every stage of construction.
• Who will blueprint the new training system?

Synonymes : plan, design, map out

Expressions courantes : blueprint a project, blueprint a system, blueprint something carefully