blueprint vs outline

blueprint

noun
  • Any detailed plan, whether literal or figurative. 

  • A print produced with this process. 

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • To make a blueprint for. 

  • To make a detailed operational plan for. 

outline

noun
  • A preliminary plan for a project. 

  • A line marking the boundary of an object figure. 

  • The outer shape of an object or figure. 

  • A prose telling of a story intended to be turned into a screenplay; generally longer and more detailed than a treatment. 

  • A sketch or drawing in which objects are delineated in contours without shading. 

  • A general description of some subject. 

  • A statement summarizing the important points of a text. 

  • A setline or trotline. 

verb
  • To optimize for size by replacing repeated code fragments with function calls. 

  • To draw an outline of. 

  • To summarize. 

How often have the words blueprint and outline occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )