Design
Definition of Design
De`sign´ | v. t. | 1. | To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. | | 2. | To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. | | 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. | | 4. | To intend or purpose; - usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to. | | v. i. | 1. | To form a design or designs; to plan.| Design for | | to intend to go to. - Evelyn. |
| | 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. |
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