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verb

  • Make or work out a plan for; devise.
    • usage: "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
  • Plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect.
    • usage: "This room is not designed for work"
  • Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner.
    • usage: "Chanel designed the famous suit"
  • Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.
    • usage: "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"
  • Create designs.
    • usage: "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
  • Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent.
    • usage: "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"
  • Intend or have as a purpose.
    • usage: "She designed to go far in the world of business"

adjective

  • Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.
    • usage: "style... Is more than the deliberate and designed creation- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(imp.&p.p.) of Design.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary