Design
v. t.- To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
- To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
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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 - To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
v. i.
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To form a design or designs; to plan.
Design for ,
to intend to go to.
n.
- 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.
- 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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Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end;
as, the argument from .design -
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 finedesign - (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.