| 单词 |
blue-printing |
| 释义 |
blue-printing, vbl. n.
a. (The process of) printing in blue beneath the glaze on china, as distinguished from ‘black-printing’.
b. The action or method of making a photographic blue-print (Cent. Dict., 1889). So blue-printer. Also (as a back-formation or f. blue-print n.) blue-print, blueprint v., lit. and fig. (see prec.).
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 470 Blue-printing is the impressions taken from engraved copper-plates by means of a rolling-press. Ibid., The blue-printer lays the plate upon a stove. Ibid. 482 The blue-printed pottery is a very popular kind. 1865L. Jewitt Wedgwoods 391 Blue Printing was introduced at Etruria at an early date, and has, of course, with black, etc., been continued to the present day. 1939J. B. Priestley Let People Sing ix. 215 Though these girls kept away, thousands of others were only too eager to be blue-printed, numbered and air-conditioned. 1942H. A. Wallace Cent. Common Man 28 Dec. (1944) 36 We cannot now blueprint all the details, but we can begin now to think about some of the guiding principles of this world-wide new democracy. 1948A. O'Rahilly Soc. Principles viii. 55 The tidy bureaucratic minds of planners and blue-printers. 1960Auden Homage to Clio i. p. 24 Do-it-yourself America Prophetically blue-printed this Palace kitchen. 1966R. Jeffries Death in Coverts ix. 97 The first death might or might not have been part of a pattern, but the second death blueprinted that pattern. |
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