design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: designs
Etymology: From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin designō (“I mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + signō (“I mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate.
Senses: glosses: A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
examples: text: The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive.
glosses: A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
examples: text: We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts
glosses: A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
glosses: The composition of a work of art.
examples: text: We have designs on winning the league next season.
text: To be hateful of the truth by design.
text: I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
ref: 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana, PG, page 40:
text: At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
ref: 1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools, volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:
text: Lisicki will rise from her current ranking of 62 to at least 35 in the world on the back of her efforts at the All England Club, but she will have serious designs on a first Grand Slam title after overcoming the 2007 runner-up.
ref: 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Intention or plot.
examples: text: To have evil designs.
glosses: Intention or plot.
Malicious or malevolent intention.
qualifier: particularly
examples: text: He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
examples: text: Danish furniture design is world-famous.
glosses: The art of designing
Synonyms: sense: plan
word: diagram
word: blueprint
word: design
word: plan
word: plot
word: project
word: proposal
word: scheme
Hyponyms: sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: architectural design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: backward design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: block design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: computational design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: computer-aided design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: contract-first design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: cradle-to-cradle design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: defensive design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: design by contract
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: domain-driven design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: experimental design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: fashion design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: firmware design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: flat design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: functional design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: graphic design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: hardware design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: industrial design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: information design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: instructional design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: intelligent design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: interaction design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: interior design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: model-based design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: motion design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: open design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: product design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: responsive design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: seismic design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: software design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: sound design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: systems design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: type design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: universal design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: universal design for instruction
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: web design
sense: plan for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system (here a piece of software)
word: zero-order design
word: agenda
word: checklist
word: conspiracy
word: deception
word: docket
word: schedule
word: to-do list
word: worklist
Meronyms: word: action
word: goal
Derived terms: antidesign
argument from design
biodesign
by design
designathon
design-based learning
design code
design depth
designer
design fiction
design flaw
designful
design language
designless
design load
designment
designoid
design pattern
design release engineer
design speed
design system
design thinking
design to cost
designwise
ecodesign
industrial design right
misdesign
nanodesign
nondesign
secure by design
security-by-design
security by design
service design package
subdesign
thermal design power
undesign
visitor design pattern
Related terms: word: diagram