design
/dɪˈzaɪn/ noun A1- A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
- A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system. · The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive.
- A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture. · We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts
- The composition of a work of art.
- Intention or plot. · We have designs on winning the league next season.· To be hateful of the truth by design.
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- The art of designing · Danish furniture design is world-famous.
Plural designs
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“I might as well inquire,” replied she, “why, with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?
“Then,” said the abbé, “we may hope to put our design into execution.”
I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection.
He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed—though he would not have dared to admit it in New York—that the Flatiron Building was inferior in design to the great cathedral in Milan.
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