What's the difference between blueprint and plan?

Blueprint


Definition:

  • () See under Print.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The guidelines and examples presented offer a set of blueprints to assist the nurse researcher with a practical approach to the content validation process.
  • (2) If Obama issues the blueprint for an accord with the Palestinians for him, Bibi might just find a way to accept it.
  • (3) Describing his blueprint for Parliament 2.0, Bercow says in a speech to the Hansard Society on Wednesday that parliament needs to "reconcile traditional concepts and institutions of representative democracy with the technological revolution witnessed over the past decade or two, which has created both a demand for and an opportunity to establish a digital democracy".
  • (4) It does provide a blueprint and method for further reductions.
  • (5) Jack Straw's detailed blueprint for a 300- strong, wholly elected upper chamber to replace the Lords appears to have been blocked at the last minute following resistance in cabinet.
  • (6) The purpose of this report is to call attention to the fetal wound healing process as a blueprint for ideal tissue repair.
  • (7) Addressing healthcare leaders at the King’s Fund’s fifth annual leadership and management summit , Hunt said the government was committed to addressing the Five Year Forward View (pdf), the blueprint for the health service put together by the NHS England chief executive, Simon Stevens.
  • (8) Thus, Blueprint should not be poured with white Vel-Mix.
  • (9) He was responsible for securing vital uranium-enrichment technology, photographing centrifuge blueprints that a German executive had been bribed into temporarily "mislaying" in his kitchen.
  • (10) In fact, I would venture that the Green party leader knows a lot more than Ferrari about building new homes: Green Cities is just one eco-think-and-do tank, which has produced blueprints for food neutral, energy neutral homes, costed at 10,000 flats for £1billion (100k each rather than 60, assuming that the land was bought by compulsory purchase order).
  • (11) When he shared the files for his initial models online, however, he realised it was not enough to give people blueprints because most people were not in a position to make their own.
  • (12) A comparison was made of the disinfection achieved in impressions taken in Blueprint Asept alginate impression material and those taken in the plain brand of this material disinfected by immersion in 1% Hycolin solution for one minute.
  • (13) We have developed a blueprint for survival that, when fully implemented, will improve access to health care for all residents in our catchment area and optimize surgical education.
  • (14) NHS England calls them “blueprints [which] will be place-based, multi-year plans built around the needs of local populations”.
  • (15) Sir Richard Branson last month re-introduced what he calls Plan B , which is intended to be “a new blueprint for better business that prioritizes people and the planet alongside profit”.
  • (16) Careful, comprehensive, and empirical observations provide the building blocks of the sciences, whereas theory and mechanisms provide the "cement" to hold the blocks together and serve as blueprints to direct future building.
  • (17) Kalinski has decided to go public as a warning to others, and his story is a blueprint of boiler-room fraud.
  • (18) However, if successful, it hopes this could provide a new blueprint for small onshore wind farms.
  • (19) Nick had come armed with previously unpublished details of Liberal Democrat plans for Lords reform and a blueprint for site value rating which Dave had told him was " Jolly interesting, Nick, it really is" before passing it to Andy Coulson.
  • (20) Sir David Bell , the former Department for Education permanent secretary, recently pointed out that our fractured political system means the party manifestos are less important than in the past and will be “starting points for negotiation” rather than blueprints for government.

Plan


Definition:

  • (a.) A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation or delineation of a horizontal section of anything, as of a building; a graphic representation; a diagram.
  • (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition.
  • (a.) A method; a way of procedure; a custom.
  • (v. t.) To form a delineation of; to draught; to represent, as by a diagram.
  • (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (3) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
  • (4) The dramas are part of the BBC2 controller Janice Hadlow's plans for her "unashamedly intelligent" channel over the coming months.
  • (5) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (6) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (7) However, as the plan unravels, Professor Marcus's team turn on one another, with painfully (if painfully funny) results.
  • (8) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (9) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (10) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
  • (11) Amid the passionate discussion at the NDA meeting, the two women began to develop a plan.
  • (12) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (13) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (14) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (15) In late May, more than 50 residents of Ust-Usa protested the effects of oil drilling and plans for a new oil well near the village.
  • (16) This technology will provide better information to the surgeon for preoperative diagnosis and planning and for the design of customized implants.
  • (17) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
  • (18) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
  • (19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (20) The planned development (october 1989) is also depicted.