What does blueprint mean?
Word: Blueprint
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Blueprint means a detailed drawing that shows how to build a house or a machine. It can also mean a careful idea of how to do something.
Synonyms: design
How do you spell blueprint?
Syllables: blue - print
Tricky part: Blue keeps its final e even though a consonant follows it, so do not write bluprint.
Watch out for: blooprint, blueprnt, bluprent
Memory tip: See the colour first, with the e it always has at the end, and then the rest of the word.
Blueprint in a sentence
Example 1: The engineer spread the blueprint of the bridge on the table.
Example 2: Our class made a blueprint for the new school garden.
Example 3: Before building the robot, Aditi drew a blueprint on squared paper.
Fun Fact
The first blueprints came from a copying method invented in 1842 by the scientist John Herschel. Light turned the treated paper blue and left the lines white.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
pntuelirb
a) bluepirnt
b) blueprint
c) bluepritn
d) blueprnit
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b) blueprint. Spot the colour in the jumble first, then the word for what a printer does.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
blueprint
a) ruin
b) paint
c) plan
d) colour
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c) plan. A blueprint is a plan showing how something will be built.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
bluepprint
a) r
b) p
c) u
d) e
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b) p. Print starts with one p.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
bl_epr_nt
a) o, i
b) u, i
c) e, i
d) u, e
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b) u, i. The colour is spelt with a u, and the second part has the short i of pin.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which worker draws a blueprint for a new building?
a) an astronaut
b) an architect
c) an actor
d) an author
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b) an architect
2. Our school's blueprint for the science fair showed:
a) where each stall would go
b) what the weather was like
c) how many visitors came
d) who won the first prize
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a) where each stall would go
