Design

n.
  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.
  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.
    6. 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.