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Meaning design meaning

What does design mean?
Definitions in simple English

design Noun

— Design is how something looks and works. Honda has a new engine in design. The new ski design made them 4% faster than his old skis. After graduating from Art &; Design at university, he started his own fashion company.

design Verb

— If you design something, you plan and show how it will look and work. The team was asked to design a new video game controller.

design

— verb (= plan, contrive) make or work out a plan for; devise They contrived to murder their boss design a new sales strategy plan an attack — verb plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect This room is not designed for work — verb create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner Chanel designed the famous suit — noun (= designing) 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 — noun (= plan) an arrangement scheme the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult it was an excellent design for living a plan for seating guests — verb (= plan) make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form design a better mousetrap plan the new wing of the museum — noun (= blueprint, pattern) something intended as a guide for making something else a blueprint for a house a pattern for a skirt — noun a decorative or artistic work the coach had a design on the doors — noun a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something the design of a building — noun (= intent, intention, aim) 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 — verb conceive or fashion in the mind; invent She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day — verb create designs Dupont designs for the house of Chanel — verb intend or have as a purpose She designed to go far in the world of business — noun (= invention) the creation of something in the mind

Synonyms design synonyms

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design English » English

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Topics design topics

What do people use design to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation

Art
Grammar General words Do

Create
Grammar General words Do

Design

  • What words refer to designing something?
    design plan
  • What words refer to the way something is designed?
    design
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Purpose, goal
Work and occupation

Working with buildings
Work and occupation Occupation

Working with cloth
States Quality Shape

Pattern, design

Conjugation design conjugation

How do you conjugate design?

design · verb

Examples design examples

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Simple sentences

I'm studying French and web design.
Was it by accident or by design?
Her bag is the same design as her mother's.
She likes the design on the plate.
Tom is a fan of simple home design.
Simplicity in design attracts users.
It wouldn't be too hard to design a new website for you.
The basic design of the humble paper clip has not changed in over one hundred years.
A group of American architects, product designers, engineers and scientists have developed the seven principles of universal design.
Tom discovered a flaw in the ship's design.
I have to design a new poster for the movie.
Are you suggesting it's a design flaw?
The Department of Public Works is redoing the design of the streets and sidewalks in order to make them more pedestrian-friendly.
Tom's design is very original.
Do you like Tom's design?
It is true that he did it, whether by accident or by design.
I hope to make clear why I think Emmet's theory, originally introduced in the field of design architecture, is so important in physics.
Such things often happen by accident rather than by design.
This design doesn't suit my taste.
He studies French and web design.
This game design specialist classifies board games by the number of player pieces.
We're studying French and web design.
Permaculture is a branch of ecological design.
I did the web design for Tom's blog.
What a beautiful design!

Movie subtitles

That's a terrible design.
The exterior design and the Florentine buildings were designed and directed by Royal Architect Franz Jaffe.
But if he takes it, I'll design the buildings.
The paper cut-outs on the wall add a touch of interior design.
A most unusual design.
Does Mr. Kent design clothes, too?
As a matter of fact, Mr. Kent's main idea is to design women's dresses the way men think they should be.
Because the law declares that in a lynching all who consent to the design are responsible for what took place.
The latest design, the last word in modern warfare.
Oh! Is that his design in settling here?
And let her know that I'm quite in raptures with her beautiful design for a table.
Any special design you want on the plate?
I'll ask the design section, but I'm sure they'll send an order transferring me to a nut house.
Look, If we design it like this, on the principle of a diving suit with flexible joints here, yet capable of holding oxygen inside I think we'll have something.
You must start again from the basic design.
This weapon, which the defendant foolishly tossed. This weapon, left there, as if by evil design, was at his fingertips.
He stayed with the design of already existing bills and imitated them exactly.
We should have him design one for all of us!
Commercial artist - design women's clothes and draw for a fashion magazine.
The design.
Perhaps if Your Excellency will examine the design. you'll recognize the coat of arms of the Spanish Viceroy of San Domingo. San Domingo?
I want to build it in a classic gothic design.
The butterfly design on your coat.
Good evening monsieur. Have you any shirts of this design?
Mr. Clarence worked all night on a new design.
What a pretty design!
When he was twenty years old, he won a contest for the prettiest design for a new 50 Franc-bill.
I'll design a costume all by myself and give you the surprise of your life.
You design ships.
Well, you know what I've always talked about, build things, design new buildings, plan modern cities.
Only after passing city inspection and design schools.
So you design the boats.
That's the design.
I can only design the tests and assign the work to each department.
Design error?

News and current affairs

To start, governments should design targeted, evidence-based policies and support the development of sound institutions.
Little of this, however, is the result of design, for (unfortunately) we in Poland have not thought through what sort of foreign policy we need as a member of NATO and putative member of the European Union.
Iran has a tradition of architectural design that has revealed key insights to cognitive scientists.
BERLIN - The current economic crisis has exposed two fundamental problems in the design of the European Monetary Union.
Within the framework of these rules, individual countries would retain the authority to design their policies.
He was equally indifferent to his people's material welfare and anything particular about the design of a viable political and economic system.
In particular, creative industries, such as animation, arts, design, and software - which are mostly based on individual skills and talent - tend to be more resilient to conflict than others.
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the United Nations Commission of Experts on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System urged that we design an efficient and fair system for the restructuring of sovereign debt.
Such a conception stabilizes social cooperation within Europe because it reflects a basic normative consensus on the design of institutions and thus orients individual behavior toward preserving these institutions.
But this time, slow stimulus is amplified by failures in the design of the Bush economic program.
If President Bush, as he has hinted, now favors a different design, it will take even more time to develop the architecture and devise a test program.
There has always been uncertainty about the best design of a banking system, and there has always been competition between different sorts of banking regulation.
Dr. Khan allegedly also supplied a detailed nuclear weapon design that US experts say is of a 1964 Chinese vintage passed on to Pakistan two decades ago.
The other division, which falls under the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and the National Development Complex, has a much wider range of responsibilities - conversion of uranium gas to metal, weapons design and manufacture, and nuclear testing.
So we shouldn't be too quick to dismiss the suggestion that science might help - in the first instance, by helping us design more effective institutions, more inspiring moral education, or more persuasive ethical arguments.
So the next task is to design wise, innovative, and cost-effective programs to address these challenges.
America's design for Asian trade is inspired by the goal of containing China, and the TPP template effectively excludes it, owing to the non-trade-related conditions imposed by US lobbies.
Apple is shifting some manufacturing from China to Silicon Valley; Airtex Design Group is moving part of its textile production from China back to the United States.
Regulators need to know just how many banks are in trouble and approximate how bad their situations are in order to design and implement targeted solutions.
For them, doing so would be tantamount to admitting that most people in this hospitable, well-endowed kingdom had been kept poor by design all along.
For example, industrial design, marketing, and legal services could facilitate investment and development of new manufactured products.

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