Design(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.
Design(n.) 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.
Design(n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
Design(n.) 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.
Design(n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
Design(n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
Design(n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
Design(n.) 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.
Design(n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
Design(v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.
Designable(a.) Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.
Designate(v. t.) Designated; appointed; chosen.
Designate(v. t.) To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
Designate(v. t.) To call by a distinctive title; to name.
Designate(v. t.) To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
Designated(imp. & p. p.) of Designate
Designating(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Designate
Designation(n.) The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
Designation(n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
Designation(n.) That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
Designation(n.) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
Designative(a.) Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
Designator(n.) An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
Designator(n.) One who designates.
Designed(imp. & p. p.) of Design
Designedly(adv.) By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
Designer(n.) One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.
Designer(n.) One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.
Designer(n.) A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.
Designful(a.) Full of design; scheming.
Designing(a.) Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
Designing(n.) The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
Designing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Design
Designment(n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.
Designment(n.) Design; purpose; scheme.
Words within designative