design

/di zuyn"/, v.t.

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. Obs. to mark out, as by a sign; indicate.

v.i.

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.

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.

[1350-1400; ME designen < L designare to mark out. See DE-, SIGN]

Syn. 5. See intend. 13. See plan.

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(as used in expressions)

Rhode Island School of Design

stage design

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see industrial design; interior design. See also advertising; architecture; typography; and other subject areas in which design is fundamental.

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Synonyms:

Project, plan, devise, contrive, scheme, concoct, brew, Intention, intent, purpose, project, plan, device, scheme, proposal, aim, intent, meaning, purport, drift, scope, object, mark / Purpose, intend, mean, propose to one's self, have in view, Sketch, drawing, outline, delineation, plan, draught / Draw, delineate, sketch, describe, trace out, Contrivance, invention, inventiveness, adaptation of means to ends

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