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Blueprint vs Schema - What's the difference?

blueprint | schema |

As nouns the difference between blueprint and schema

is that blueprint is a type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies while schema is an outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a body schema).

As a verb blueprint

is to make a blueprint for.

blueprint

English

(wikipedia blueprint)

Alternative forms

* blue print, blue-print

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of paper-based reproduction process producing white-on-blue images, used primarily for technical and architecture's drawings, now largely replaced by other technologies.
  • A print produced with this process.
  • (architecture, engineering, by extension) A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
  • (informal, by extension) Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

    • Synonyms

    * (paper-based technical drawing) cyanotype, schematic * (detailed technical drawing) schematic * (informal) road map, schematic, plan, layout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a blueprint for.
    • The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.
  • To make a detailed operational plan for.
    • They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.

    schema

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An outline or image universally applicable to a general conception, under which it is likely to be presented to the mind (for example, a ).
  • (databases) A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and other attributes of each column.
  • (markup languages) A formal description of data, data types, and data file structures, such as for XML files.
  • (logic) A formula in the language of an axiomatic system, in which one or more schematic variables appear, which stand for any term or subformula of the system, which may or may not be required to satisfy certain conditions.

    • Synonyms

    * (universally-applicable image or outline) schemat * (databases) schemat * (logic) axiom schema, schemat

    Derived terms

    * conceptual schema * logical schema * physical schema

    Related terms

    * schematic(al)]][[schematically, (ly) * schematism * schematist * schematization * schematize * schematologetically * schematomancy * scheme

    Anagrams

    * *

    References

    * “ schema]” listed in the [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary] , second edition (1989) English nouns with irregular plurals ----