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blueprint  (blueprints plural )
1  n-count A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work. 
usu N for n 
The country's president will offer delegates his blueprint for the country's future., ...the blueprint of a new plan of economic reform.  
2  n-count A blueprint of an architect's building plans or a designer's pattern is a photographic print consisting of white lines on a blue background. Blueprints contain all of the information that is needed to build or make something. 
usu with supp  (=design) 
...a blueprint of the whole place, complete with heating ducts and wiring..., The documents contain a blueprint for a nuclear device.  
3  n-count A genetic blueprint is a pattern which is contained within all living cells. This pattern decides how the organism develops and what it looks like. 
usu with supp 
The offspring contain a mixture of the genetic blueprint of each parent...  

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