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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

advised, aforethought, aimed, aimed at, arranged, blueprinted, calculated, charted, conscious, considered, contemplated, contrived, decided, deliberate, deliberated, determined, devised, envisaged, envisioned, figured, in the works, intended, intentional, knowing, meant, meditated, methodized, of design, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, planned, plotted, premeditated, prepense, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, rationalized, resolved, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, strategetic, strategic, studied, studious, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, teleological, thought-out, voluntary, willful, witting, worked out

Dictionary Results for designed:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

designed
    adj 1: done or made or performed with purpose and intent;
           "style...is more than the deliberate and designed
           creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages";
           "well-designed houses" [syn: designed, intentional]
           [ant: undesigned]

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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