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Blueprint vs. Map

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Blueprintnoun

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.

Mapnoun

A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary.

Blueprintnoun

A print produced with this process.

Mapnoun

A graphical representation of the relationships between objects, components or themes.

Blueprintnoun

A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).

Mapnoun

(mathematics) A function.

‘Let $f$ be a map from $\mathbb\left\{R\right\}$ to $\mathbb\left\{R\right\}$’;

Blueprintnoun

Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

Mapnoun

The butterfly Araschnia levana.

Blueprintverb

To make a blueprint for.

‘The architect blueprinted the renovation plan once the client had signed off.’;

Mapnoun

The face.

Blueprintverb

To make a detailed operational plan for.

‘They blueprinted every aspect of the first phase of the operation.’;

Mapnoun

A predefined and confined imaginary area where a game session takes place.

‘I don't want to play this map again!’;

Blueprint

See under Print.

Mapverb

To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography.

Blueprintnoun

something intended as a guide for making something else;

‘a blueprint for a house’; ‘a pattern for a skirt’;

Mapverb

To inform someone of a particular idea.

Blueprintnoun

photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

Mapverb

To act as a function on something, taking it to something else.

$f$ maps $A$ to $B$, mapping every $a\in A$ to $f\left(a\right)\in B$.’;

Blueprintverb

make a blueprint of

Mapnoun

A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; - usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.

Blueprint

A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies.

Mapnoun

Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map.

‘Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.’;

Mapverb

To represent by a map; - often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.

‘I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly.’;

Mapnoun

a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)

Mapnoun

a function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set

Mapverb

make a map of; show or establish the features of details of;

‘map the surface of Venus’;

Mapverb

explore or survey for the purpose of making a map;

‘We haven't even begun to map the many galaxies that we know exist’;

Mapverb

locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences;

‘map the genes’;

Mapverb

plan, delineate, or arrange in detail;

‘map one's future’;

Mapverb

depict as if on a map;

‘sorrow was mapped on the mother's face’;

Mapverb

to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets)

Map

A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive.