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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
design
    n 1: the act of working out the form of something (as by making
         a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design
         of a new instrument" [syn: design, designing]
    2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
       made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
       living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan]
    3: something intended as a guide for making something else; "a
       blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" [syn:
       blueprint, design, pattern]
    4: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the
       doors" [syn: design, pattern, figure]
    5: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your
       planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new
       translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was
       created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs";
       "he made no secret of his designs" [syn: purpose, intent,
       intention, aim, design]
    6: a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something; "the
       design of a building"
    7: the creation of something in the mind [syn: invention,
       innovation, excogitation, conception, design]
    v 1: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
         murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an
         attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design]
    2: plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect;
       "This room is not designed for work"
    3: create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or
       highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit"
    4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form;
       "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the
       museum" [syn: design, plan]
    5: create designs; "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
    6: conceive or fashion in the mind; invent; "She designed a good
       excuse for not attending classes that day"
    7: intend or have as a purpose; "She designed to go far in the
       world of business"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to
      show; to point out; to appoint.
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            We shall see
            Justice design the victor's chivalry. --Shak.
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            Meet me to-morrow where the master
            And this fraternity shall design.     --Beau. & Fl.
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   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.
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   4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the
      remote object, but sometimes with to.
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            Ask of politicians the end for which laws were
            originally designed.                  --Burke.
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            He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden.

   Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project;
        mean.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Design \De*sign"\, v. i.
   To form a design or designs; to plan.
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   Design for, to intend to go to. [Obs.] "From this city she
      designed for Collin [Cologne]." --Evelyn.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   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.
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            The vast design and purpos? of the King. --Tennyson.
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            The leaders of that assembly who withstood the
            designs of a besotted woman.          --Hallam.
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            A . . . settled design upon another man's life.
                                                  --Locke.
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            How little he could guess the secret designs of the
            court!                                --Macaulay.
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   3. 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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   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.
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   5. (Mus.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the
      disposition of every part, and the general order of the
      whole.
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   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.
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                Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only
                for a day, without any prospect to the remaining
                part of his life?                 --Tillotson.
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                I wish others the same intention, and greater
                successes.                        --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.
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                It is the purpose that makes strong the vow.
                                                  --Shak.
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5. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)
design

    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)


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