blueprint

Universal Words noun 1 a photographic print of a plan for a building or a machine, with white lines on a blue background: blueprints of a new aircraft 2 ~ (for sth) a plan which shows what can be achieved and how it can be achieved: a blueprint for the privatization of health care 3 (technical) the pattern in every living cell, which decides how the plant, animal or person will develop and what it will look like: DNA carries the genetic blueprint which tells any organism how to build itself.