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The Meaning of design
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(n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
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(n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
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(v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
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(n.) 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.
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(n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
Synonyms
purpose
,
blueprint
,
excogitation
,
innovation
,
designing
,
intention
,
figure
,
aim
,
pattern
,
plan
,
invention
,
intent
,
conception
,
program
,
programme
,
architectural plan
,
form
,
approach pattern
,
formula
,
rule
,
radiation pattern
,
practice
,
traffic pattern
,
radiation diagram
,
convention
,
shape
,
normal
,
image
,
flesh
,
frame
,
fig
,
figure of speech
,
chassis
,
physical body
,
trope
,
soma
,
human body
,
physique
,
public figure
,
number
,
digit
,
bod
,
name
,
anatomy
,
material body
,
build
,
objective
,
use
,
determination
,
role
,
purport
,
function
,
spirit
,
object
,
target
,
bearing
,
heading
,
foundation
,
initiation
,
instauration
,
introduction
,
construct
,
creation
,
institution
,
founding
,
origination
,
concept
,
throw
,
see
,
protrude
,
visualize
,
excogitate
,
jut
,
forge
,
propose
,
cast
,
externalise
,
project
,
devise
,
fancy
,
visualise
,
stick out
,
invent
,
contrive
,
send off
,
picture
,
envision
,
jut out
,
externalize
,
formulate
,
be after
,
aspiration
,
endeavor
,
tendency
,
goal
,
mark
,
inclination
,
end
Antonyms
aimlessness
,
heedlessness
,
negligence
,
purposelessness
,
avoidance
,
neglect
,
oversight
,
thoughtlessness
,
carelessness
Rhymes
adeline
,
aerodyne
,
affine
,
airline
,
alamein
,
align
,
aline
,
alkaline
,
alpine
,
arline
,
arlyne
,
asinine
,
assign
,
australopithecine
,
ballantine
,
barentine
,
baseline
,
benign
,
bloodline
,
borderline
,
bornstein
,
bovine
,
brandywine
,
brine
,
brookline
,
bryne
,
burdine
,
byline
,
byzantine
,
calamine
,
canine
,
capitoline
,
carbine
,
caroline
,
celandine
,
chine
,
clementine
,
cline
,
clozapine
,
clyne
,
coastline
,
columbine
,
combine
,
concubine
,
confine
,
constantine
,
crine
,
crystalline
,
dateline
,
deadline
,
decline
,
define
,
devine
,
dewine
,
dhein
,
dine
,
disincline
,
divine
,
dopamine
,
dragline
,
dwine
,
earthshine
,
eglantine
,
ein
,
emeline
,
emlynne
,
emmeline
,
endocrine
,
enshrine
,
entwine
,
epstein
,
equine
,
erskine
,
evangeline
,
fein
,
feinstein
,
feline
,
feyen
,
fine
,
francyne
,
frankenstein
,
genuine
,
gourdine
,
grapevine
,
guideline
,
guynn
,
gwine
,
hainline
,
hairline
,
hammerstein
,
headline
,
hein
,
heine
,
hemline
,
heterodyne
,
heyen
,
hine
,
hornstein
,
hot-line
,
huynh
,
ice-nine
,
incline
,
intertwine
,
iodine
,
jacobine
,
jain
,
karoline
,
klein
,
kline
,
kyne
,
leontine
,
lichtenstein
,
liechtenstein
,
lifeline
,
limine
,
line
,
lupine
,
lyne
,
lysne
,
macalpine
,
mainline
,
malign
,
mcalpine
,
microdyne
,
midline
,
mine
,
missildine
,
moonshine
,
nadein
,
nine
,
online
,
opine
,
outline
,
outshine
,
palatine
,
palestine
,
pine
,
pipeline
,
porcupine
,
prine
,
pruyn
,
pyne
,
quinine
,
rankine
,
realign
,
reassign
,
recline
,
recombine
,
redefine
,
redesign
,
refine
,
resign
,
rhine
,
rhyne
,
rine
,
rubinstein
,
saccharine
,
schein
,
schlein
,
sein
,
serpentine
,
sharp-sign
,
shein
,
shine
,
shoeshine
,
shrine
,
sideline
,
sign
,
silverstein
,
sine
,
skyline
,
spine
,
spline
,
stein
,
stine
,
storyline
,
streamline
,
strine
,
strychnine
,
styne
,
sunshine
,
superheterodyne
,
supine
,
swine
,
thein
,
thine
,
timberline
,
tine
,
trine
,
turpentine
,
twine
,
tyne
,
underline
,
undermine
,
valentine
,
vandine
,
vanduyn
,
vanduyne
,
vine
,
waistline
,
wallenstein
,
whine
,
wine
,
wyne
,
zine