design
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin designō (“to mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + signō (“to mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate.
Inflected forms:
form: designs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: designs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: designing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: design
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: design
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: design
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: designest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: designedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: designs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: designeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: design
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: design
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: design
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: designing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: designed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design.
gloss: A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive.
Where it had been left hundreds of years ago, / Extract from the depth, is but a setting sun, / Paradise is scarce in this light that won’t shine, / What is our earthly task, but a worthy design?
gloss: A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts
gloss: The composition of a work of art.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Intention or plot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have designs on winning the league next season.
To be hateful of the truth by design.
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 […]
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.
"They say if anyone's best man more than ten times, he'll never be married. I wanted to be for the tenth time, but the post was taken," said Count Siniavin to the pretty Princess Tcharskaya, who had designs on him.
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.
gloss: The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The art of designing
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Danish furniture design is world-famous.
gloss: To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: comments designed to chip away at my self-esteem
He always designs gaming laptops from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am.
She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the Staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend […]
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
gloss: To plan (to do something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.
gloss: To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.
He was designed to the study of the law.
gloss: To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
pos: verb
examples: We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design.
Synonyms: blueprint
design
plan
plot
project
proposal
scheme
Related words: diagram
Derived words: antidesign
argument from design
biodesign
by design
designathon
design-based learning
design code
design depth
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
nanodesign
nondesign
scenic design
secure by design
security-by-design
security by design
service design package
set design
stage design
subdesign
thermal design power
designer
misdesign
undesign
a camel is a horse designed by a committee
codesign
designability
designable
designed
designedly
foredesign
outdesign
overdesign
predesign
redesign
undesignable
undesigned
undesignedly
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