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de⋅sign
[di-zahyn] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), esp. to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge. |
| 2. | to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully. |
| 3. | to intend for a definite purpose: a scholarship designed for foreign students. |
| 4. | to form or conceive in the mind; contrive; plan: The prisoner designed an intricate escape. |
| 5. | to assign in thought or intention; purpose: He designed to be a doctor. |
| 6. | Obsolete. to mark out, as by a sign; indicate. |
–verb (used without object)
| 7. | to make drawings, preliminary sketches, or plans. |
| 8. | to plan and fashion the form and structure of an object, work of art, decorative scheme, etc. |
–noun
| 9. | an outline, sketch, or plan, as of the form and structure of a work of art, an edifice, or a machine to be executed or constructed. |
| 10. | organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art; composition. |
| 11. | the combination of details or features of a picture, building, etc.; the pattern or motif of artistic work: the design on a bracelet. |
| 12. | the art of designing: a school of design. |
| 13. | a plan or project: a design for a new process. |
| 14. | a plot or intrigue, esp. an underhand, deceitful, or treacherous one: His political rivals formulated a design to unseat him. |
| 15. | designs, a hostile or aggressive project or scheme having evil or selfish motives: He had designs on his partner's stock. |
| 16. | intention; purpose; end. |
| 17. | adaptation of means to a preconceived end. |
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| de·sign (dĭ-zīn') v. de·signed, de·sign·ing, de·signs v. tr.
[Middle English designen, from Latin dēsignāre, to designate; see designate.] de·sign'a·ble adj. |
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Design
De*sign"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Designed; p. pr. & vb. n. Designing.] [F. d['e]signer to designate, cf. F. dessiner to draw, dessin drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See Sign, and cf. Design, n., Designate.]1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. --Dryden. 2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. --Shak. Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design. --Beau. & Fl. 3. 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. 4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to. Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. --Burke. He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden. Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean.Design
De*sign"\, v. i. To form a design or designs; to plan. Design for, to intend to go to. [Obs.] "From this city she designed for Collin [Cologne]." --Evelyn.Design
De*sign"\, n. [Cf. dessein, dessin.]1. 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. 2. 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. The vast design and purpos? of the King. --Tennyson. The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. --Hallam. A . . . settled design upon another man's life. --Locke. How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! --Macaulay. 3. Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design. 4. 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. 5. (Mus.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole. Arts of design, those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture. School of design, one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like. Syn: Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea. Usage: Design, Intention, Purpose. Design has reference to something definitely aimed at. Intention points to the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought. Purpose has reference to a settled choice or determination for its attainment. "I had no design to injure you," means it was no part of my aim or object. "I had no intention to injure you," means, I had no wish or desire of that kind. "My purpose was directly the reverse," makes the case still stronger. Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life? --Tillotson. I wish others the same intention, and greater successes. --Sir W. Temple. It is the purpose that makes strong the vow. --Shak.
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Language Translation for : design
Spanish:
diseñar, estructurar, concebir, idear,
German:
entwerfen,
Japanese:
デザインする
design
1548, from L. designare "mark out, devise," from de- "out" + signare "to mark," from signum "a mark, sign." Originally in Eng. with the meaning now attached to designate (1646, from L. designatus, pp. of designare); many modern uses of design are metaphoric extensions. Designer (adj.) in the fashion sense of "prestigious" is first recorded 1966; designer drug is from 1983. Designing "scheming" is from 1671. Designated hitter introduced in American League baseball in 1973, soon giving wide figurative extension to designated.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: de·sign
Pronunciation: di-'zIn
Function: noun
: a plan or protocol for carrying out or accomplishing something (especially a scientificexperiment); also : the process of preparing this —design transitive verb
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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design process
The approach that engineering (and some other) disciplines use to specify how to create or do something. A successful design must satisfies a (perhaps informal) functional specification (do what it was designed to do); conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is possible to implement); meets implicit or explicit requirements on performance and resource usage (it is efficient enough).
A design may also have to satisfy restrictions on the design process itself, such as its length or cost, or the tools available for doing the design.
In the software life-cycle, design follows requirements analysis and is followed by implementation.
["Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", 2nd ed., Grady Booch].
(1996-12-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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design
see by design; have designs on.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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