Sketch vs. Blueprint — What's the Difference?

A rough or unfinished drawing or painting, often made to assist in making a more finished picture

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.

A short humorous play or performance, consisting typically of one scene in a revue or comedy programme

A contact print of a drawing or other image rendered as white lines on a blue background, especially such a print of an architectural plan or technical drawing. Also called cyanotype.

A comical or amusing person or thing.

A mechanical drawing produced by any of various similar photographic processes, such as one that creates blue or black lines on a white background.

Make a rough drawing of

A detailed plan of action.

A hasty or undetailed drawing or painting often made as a preliminary study.

A model or prototype.

A brief general account or presentation; an outline.

To make a blueprint of.

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or a short story.

To lay a plan for.

(Music) A brief composition, especially for the piano.

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 short, often satirical scene or play in a revue or variety show; a skit.

A print produced with this process.

(Informal) An amusing person.

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

To make a sketch of; outline.

Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative.

To make a sketch.

To make a blueprint for.

(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.

To make a detailed operational plan for.

(transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

See under Print.

A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.

Something intended as a guide for making something else;

A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.

Photographic print of plans or technical drawings etc.

A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.

Make a blueprint of

A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.

A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.

A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.

(informal) An amusing person.

A lookout; vigilant watch for something.

(UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.

(category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).

Sketchy, shady, questionable.

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.

To draw the outline or chief features of; to make a rought of.

To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

Preliminary drawing for later elaboration;

A brief literary description

Short descriptive summary (of events)

A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

Make a sketch of;

Describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;