[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

design \design"\ ?; 277, v. t. imp.  p. p. designed; p.
   pr.  vb. n. designing. f. d'esigner 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.
      1913 webster

   2. to mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to
      show; to point out; to appoint.
      1913 webster

            we shall see
            justice design the victor's chivalry. --shak.
      1913 webster

            meet me to-morrow where the master
            and this fraternity shall design.     --beau.  fl.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   4. to intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the
      remote object, but sometimes with to.
      1913 webster

            ask of politicians the end for which laws were
            originally designed.                  --burke.
      1913 webster

            he was designed to the study of the law. --dryden.

   syn: to sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project;
        mean.
        1913 webster
see also:
designed designing sign design designate 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

design \design"\, 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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            the vast design and purpos? of the king. --tennyson.
      1913 webster

            the leaders of that assembly who withstood the
            designs of a besotted woman.          --hallam.
      1913 webster

            a . . . settled design upon another man's life.
                                                  --locke.
      1913 webster

            how little he could guess the secret designs of the
            court                                --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   3. specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred
      from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument
      from design.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   5. mus. the invention and conduct of the subject; the
      disposition of every part, and the general order of the
      whole.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

                is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only
                for a day, without any prospect to the remaining
                part of his life?                 --tillotson.
          1913 webster

                i wish others the same intention, and greater
                successes.                        --sir w.
                                                  temple.
          1913 webster

                it is the purpose that makes strong the vow.
                                                  --shak.
          1913 webster
see also:
arts of design school of design design intention purpose 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

design \design"\, v. i.
   to form a design or designs; to plan.
   1913 webster

   design for, to intend to go to. obs. "from this city she
      designed for collin cologne." --evelyn.
      1913 webster
see also:
design for 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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 that guides your
        planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new
        translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "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"
see also:
designing plan blueprint pattern figure purpose 
intent intention aim invention innovation 
excogitation conception project contrive 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

438 moby thesaurus words for "design":
   abstract art, action, aim, aim at, ambition, anagnorisis, angle,
   animus, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrange,
   arrangement, art, art form, art object, artful dodge, artifice,
   artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, aspiration, aspire after,
   aspire to, atmosphere, attack, background, background detail,
   bag of tricks, balance, be after, beget, black and white, blind,
   blueprint, blueprinting, bluff, bosey, brainchild, breed,
   bric-a-brac, bring forth, bring into being, brouillon, brushwork,
   cabal, calculate, calculation, call into being, calligraphy,
   canon form, cartoon, cast, catastrophe, catch, cave art, ceramics,
   chalk, characterization, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chart,
   charting, chiaroscuro, chicanery, chouse, classic, coin, color,
   complication, composition, conation, conceive, conception, concert,
   concoct, configuration, connivance, conniving, conspiracy,
   constitution, construct, construction, contemplate, continuity,
   contrivance, contrive, cook up, copy, counsel, coup, craft, crayon,
   create, creation, crosshatch, curve, curve-ball, cut out,
   cute trick, dash off, daub, deceit, decoration,
   decorative composition, decorative style, deliberation, delineate,
   delineation, denouement, depict, desideration, desideratum,
   designing, designs, desire, destine, detail, determination,
   determine, develop, development, device, devise, diagram,
   dirty deal, dirty trick, disposition, dodge, doodle, dope out,
   draft, draftsmanship, draw, draw up, drawing, dream up, drive at,
   ebauche, effect, elevation, engender, engraving, enterprise,
   envisage, envisagement, envision, episode, esquisse, etching,
   evil intent, evolve, expedient, fable, fabricate, fakement,
   falling action, fashion, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, figure,
   figuring, fine arts, fixed purpose, foil, folk art, forecast,
   foreground detail, foresight, forethought, forge, form, format,
   formation, frame, fugue form, function, gambit, game, game plan,
   generate, gimmick, give being to, give rise to, go for, goal,
   googly, graph, graphic arts, graphing, grift, grotesque,
   ground plan, grouping, guidelines, harbor a design, hatch,
   have every intention, hocus-pocus, house plan, ichnography, idea,
   improvise, incident, intend, intendment, intent, intention,
   intrigue, invent, invention, joker, juggle, jugglery, kitsch,
   knavery, lay out, lay plans, layout, lied form, limn, line,
   line drawing, lineup, little game, local color, long-range plan,
   machination, make, make a projection, make arrangements,
   make do with, make up, maneuver, manipulation, map, map out,
   mapping, master, master plan, masterpiece, masterwork, mature,
   mean, meaning, method, methodize, methodology, mind, mint, mobile,
   model, mood, motif, motive, mould, move, movement, museum piece,
   mythos, national style, nisus, nude, object, objective, old master,
   operations research, organization, organize, originate,
   ornamental motif, outline, paint, paint a picture, painterliness,
   pass, pastel, pasticcio, pastiche, pattern, pen-and-ink, pencil,
   pencil drawing, period style, peripeteia, perspective, photography,
   picture, picturize, piece, piece of virtu, plan, plan ahead,
   planning, planning function, plastic art, plot, ploy, point,
   portray, prearrange, prearrangement, primary form, primitive art,
   procedure, procreate, produce, profile, program, program of action,
   project, projection, proposal, propose, prospectus, prototype,
   purport, purpose, racket, rationalization, rationalize,
   recognition, red herring, reflection, repeated figure, resolution,
   resolve, rising action, rondo form, rough, rough copy, rough draft,
   rough outline, ruse, sake, schedule, schema, schematism,
   schematization, schematize, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scratch,
   sculpture, scumble, scurvy trick, secondary plot, set out, set up,
   setting, setup, shade, shading, shadow, shape, shift, silhouette,
   silver-print drawing, sinopia, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slant,
   sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, sonata allegro,
   sonata form, spawn, stabile, statue, stencil, still life, story,
   stratagem, strategic plan, strategy, strike out, striving,
   structure, study, style, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch,
   symphonic form, system, systematization, systematize, table,
   tactic, tactical plan, tactics, target, technique, the arts,
   the big picture, the picture, thematic development, theme, think,
   think of, think out, think up, thinking, thought, tint,
   toccata form, tone, topic, touch, trace, tracing, treatment, trick,
   trickery, twist, undertaking, values, view, vignette, virtu,
   visualize, volition, way, wile, will, wily device, work,
   work of art, work out, work up, working drawing, working plan

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

design
     
         the 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
     
     
see also:
functional specification software life-cycle requirements analysis 

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