design
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin designō (“I mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + signō (“I mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design (countable and uncountable, plural designs)
- 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.
- 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana, PG, page 40:
- I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
- 1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools[1], volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC, page 202:
- At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]
- 2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- Lisicki will rise from her current ranking of 62 to at least 35 in the world on the back of her efforts at the All England Club, but she will have serious designs on a first Grand Slam title after overcoming the 2007 runner-up.
- (particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.
- To have evil designs.
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[3]:
- He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
- The art of designing
- Danish furniture design is world-famous.
Synonyms edit
- (plan): See Thesaurus:diagram
- (intention): See Thesaurus:design
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- argument from design
- backward design
- block design
- by design
- computational design
- computer-aided design
- cradle-to-cradle design
- defensive design
- design by contract
- design code
- design depth
- designer
- design flaw
- design language
- design load
- design pattern
- design speed
- design thinking
- design to cost
- experimental design
- fashion design
- flat design
- graphic design
- industrial design
- industrial design right
- instructional design
- intelligent design
- interaction design
- interior design
- model-based design
- motion design
- open design
- secure by design
- security-by-design
- security by design
- seismic design
- service design package
- sound design
- systems design
- thermal design power
- type design
- universal design
- visitor design pattern
- web design
- zero-order design
Descendants edit
- → Burmese: ဒီဇိုင်း (dijuing:)
- → Czech: design
- → Dutch: design
- → Finnish: design
- → French: design
- → German: Design
- → Hungarian: dizájn, design
- → Italian: design
- → Japanese: デザイン (dezain)
- → Korean: 디자인 (dijain)
- → Portuguese: design
- → Russian: диза́йн (dizájn)
- → Kazakh: дизайн (dizain)
- → Swedish: design
- → Turkish: dizayn
Translations edit
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Verb edit
design (third-person singular simple present designs, present participle designing, simple past and past participle designed)
- (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.). [from 17th c.]
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the Staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend […]
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess[4]:
- The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
- The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.
- (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate. [16th–19th c.]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 10:
- he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.
- 1700, John Dryden, Translations from Ovid's Epistles, Preface:
- He was designed to the study of the law.
- (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
- To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
- 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Knight of Malta”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene iii:
- Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design.
Derived terms edit
- a camel is a horse designed by a committee
- designable
- designed
- designedly
- designer
- foredesign
- outdesign
- overdesign
- predesign
- redesign
- undesignable
- undesigned
- undesignedly
Translations edit
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Further reading edit
- “design”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “design”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “design”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design m inan
Declension edit
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design n (plural designs)
Synonyms edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English design.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design
- design
- Synonym: suunnittelu
Declension edit
Inflection of design (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | design | designit | ||
genitive | designin | designien | ||
partitive | designia | designeja | ||
illative | designiin | designeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | design | designit | ||
accusative | nom. | design | designit | |
gen. | designin | |||
genitive | designin | designien | ||
partitive | designia | designeja | ||
inessive | designissa | designeissa | ||
elative | designista | designeista | ||
illative | designiin | designeihin | ||
adessive | designilla | designeilla | ||
ablative | designilta | designeilta | ||
allative | designille | designeille | ||
essive | designina | designeina | ||
translative | designiksi | designeiksi | ||
abessive | designitta | designeitta | ||
instructive | — | designein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Inflection of design (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | design | designit | ||
genitive | designin | designien | ||
partitive | designiä | designejä | ||
illative | designiin | designeihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | design | designit | ||
accusative | nom. | design | designit | |
gen. | designin | |||
genitive | designin | designien | ||
partitive | designiä | designejä | ||
inessive | designissä | designeissä | ||
elative | designistä | designeistä | ||
illative | designiin | designeihin | ||
adessive | designillä | designeillä | ||
ablative | designiltä | designeiltä | ||
allative | designille | designeille | ||
essive | designinä | designeinä | ||
translative | designiksi | designeiksi | ||
abessive | designittä | designeittä | ||
instructive | — | designein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Further reading edit
- “design”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][5] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English design. Doublet of dessein.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design m (plural designs)
Hungarian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English design, from Latin designō (“I mark out, describe, plan”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design (countable and uncountable, plural designok)
- design (art and profession of designing functional objects such as furniture, vehicles, household appliances, etc.)
- Synonym: formatervezés
Declension edit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | design | designok |
accusative | designt | designokat |
dative | designnak | designoknak |
instrumental | designnal | designokkal |
causal-final | designért | designokért |
translative | designná | designokká |
terminative | designig | designokig |
essive-formal | designként | designokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | designban | designokban |
superessive | designon | designokon |
adessive | designnál | designoknál |
illative | designba | designokba |
sublative | designra | designokra |
allative | designhoz | designokhoz |
elative | designból | designokból |
delative | designról | designokról |
ablative | designtól | designoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
designé | designoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
designéi | designokéi |
Possessive forms of design | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | designom | designjaim |
2nd person sing. | designod | designjaid |
3rd person sing. | designja | designjai |
1st person plural | designunk | designjaink |
2nd person plural | designotok | designjaitok |
3rd person plural | designjuk | designjaik |
Derived terms edit
See at dizájn.
Further reading edit
- dizájn in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design m (invariable)
- design (industrial)
References edit
- ^ design in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
design
Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English design, from Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin dēsignō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design m inan
- (design) design (plan of usable objects)
- Synonym: wzornictwo
- (design) design (appearance of usable objects)
- Hypernym: wygląd
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English design. Doublet of desenhar and designar.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design m (plural designs)
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English design.
Noun edit
design n (uncountable)
Declension edit
singular | ||
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n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
nominative/accusative | (un) design | designul |
genitive/dative | (unui) design | designului |
vocative | designule |
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
design c
- a design
Declension edit
Declension of design | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | design | designen | designer | designerna |
Genitive | designs | designens | designers | designernas |