Meaning of 'design'

Meaning of 'design' (Webster Dictionary)

1. Design

[ n.]

- To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
- To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
- To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.
- To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
- A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
- A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
- Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
- The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
- The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

2. Design

[ v. i.]

- To form a design or designs; to plan.

Meaning of 'design' (Princeton's WordNet)

1. design

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- something intended as a guide for making something else

Example in sentence:

a blueprint for a house;
a pattern for a skirt

Meaning (2):
- the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

Example in sentence:

he contributed to the design of a new instrument

Meaning (3):
- an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

Example in sentence:

good intentions are not enough;
he made no secret of his designs;
his intent was to provide a new translation;
it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs

Meaning (4):
- an arrangement scheme

Example in sentence:

a plan for seating guests;
it was an excellent design for living;
the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult

Meaning (5):
- a decorative or artistic work

Example in sentence:

the coach had a design on the doors

Meaning (6):
- a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something

Example in sentence:

the design of a building

2. design

[ v]

Meaning (7):
- create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner

Example in sentence:

Chanel designed the famous suit

Meaning (8):
- make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form

Example in sentence:

design a better mousetrap;
plan the new wing of the museum

Meaning (9):
- create designs

Example in sentence:

Dupont designs for the house of Chanel

Meaning (10):
- conceive or fashion in the mind; invent

Example in sentence:

She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day

Meaning (11):
- intend or have as a purpose

Example in sentence:

She designed to go far in the world of business

Meaning (12):
- make or work out a plan for; devise

Example in sentence:

design a new sales strategy;
plan an attack;
They contrived to murder their boss

Meaning (13):
- plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect

Example in sentence:

This room is not designed for work

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Meaning of 'design' (Webster Dictionary)

Meaning of 'design' (Princeton's WordNet)

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