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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: {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: {plan}] 3: something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" [syn: {blueprint}, {pattern}] 4: a decorative or artistic work "the coach had a design on the doors" [syn: {pattern}, {figure}] 5: an anticipated outcome that is intended or guides your planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs" [syn: {purpose}, {intent}, {intention}, {aim}] 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}] 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}] 2: design 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: {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" From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: designThe 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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