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Design   /dɪzˈaɪn/   Listen
Design

noun
1.
The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan).  Synonym: designing.
2.
An arrangement scheme.  Synonym: plan.  "It was an excellent design for living" , "A plan for seating guests"
3.
Something intended as a guide for making something else.  Synonyms: blueprint, pattern.  "A pattern for a skirt"
4.
A decorative or artistic work.  Synonyms: figure, pattern.
5.
An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.  Synonyms: aim, intent, intention, purpose.  "Good intentions are not enough" , "It was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs" , "He made no secret of his designs"
6.
A preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something.
7.
The creation of something in the mind.  Synonyms: conception, excogitation, innovation, invention.
verb
(past & past part. designed; pres. part. designing)
1.
Make or work out a plan for; devise.  Synonyms: contrive, plan, project.  "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"
2.
Plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect.
3.
Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner.
4.
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.  Synonym: plan.  "Plan the new wing of the museum"
5.
Create designs.
6.
Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent.
7.
Intend or have as a purpose.



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"Design" Quotes from Famous Books



... they had much spare time, for as Janet said, 'having no man to cook and wash for lifted half the work from their hands,' but they were busy women for all that. Janet began a patch-work quilt of a wonderful design as a wedding present for Christina; and as the whole village contributed "pieces" for its construction, the whole village felt an interest in its progress. It was a delightful excuse for Janet's resumption of her old friendly, gossipy ways; and every afternoon saw her ...
— A Knight of the Nets • Amelia E. Barr

... respectable summit, had these confused roads and treacherous peasantry conducted me. My shoulder was cut, so that it hurt sharply; my arm ached like tooth-ache from perpetual beating; I gave up the lake and my design to camp, and asked for ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition - Vol. 1 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... according to your turn of mind. Take one by itself, explains Mr. Harrison, and you will be sure to rank it as ordinary road-metal. But take a series together, and then, he urges, the sight of the same forms over and over again will persuade you in the end that human design, not aimless chance, ...
— Anthropology • Robert Marett

... according to the different widths of the pieces to be treated. One list is left outside at the end of the cylinder, and the other at the opposite end of the pressing boxes. The machine we saw was 80 in. wide on the roller, and it was one the design and construction of which undoubtedly do credit ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various

... the deep philosophical meaning which we need not wonder to find in this poet, who, according to the testimony of Cicero, was a Pythagorean. Aeschylus had also political views. Foremost of these was the design of rendering Athens illustrious. Delphi was the religious centre of Greece, and yet how far it is thrown into the shade by him! It can shelter Orestes, indeed, from the first onset of persecution, but not afford him a complete liberation; this is reserved for the land ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black


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