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Definition of Design

Design To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. 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. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to. To form a design or designs; to plan. 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. 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. Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design. 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. The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole. Related Definitions: Action, Adaptation, An, And, Appoint, Argument, Art, As, Bad, Be, Before, Building, But, Carried, Carved, Cathedral, Completed, Conception, Conduct, Considered, Create, Creation, Decoration, Decorative, Delineate, Delineation, Design, Designate, Disposition, Done, Draw, End, Essay, Every, Executed, Exhibit, Expressed, Evil, Fine, For, Form, Formed, From, General, Idea, In, Indicate, Inferred, Intend, Intended, Intention, Into, Invent, Invention, Inventive, Is, Lay, Main, Man, Mark, Mind, Model, New, Object, Of, Often, Or, Order, Out, Outline, Panel, Part, Pattern, Picture, Plan, Plot, Poem, Point, Preliminary, Produce, Project, Purpose, Realization, Remote, Revealed, Scheme, Sense, Show, Shown, Sketch, Something, Sometimes, Specifically, Statue, Subject, The, This, To, Trace, Used, Visible, Whole, With, Work

Design Quotations Good design is good business. Thomas J. Watson Design is people. Jane Jacobs Design is everything. Everything! Paul Rand Accessible design is good design. Steve Ballmer The details are not the details. They make the design. Charles Eames

Design Translations design in Afrikaans is skets, plan design in Danish is plan, tegne design in Dutch is werkje, schets, tekening design in French is dessin, planification, dessiner, projet, croquer design in German is Planung, entwerfen design in Italian is progetto, disegno, abbozzare, progettazione design in Norwegian is tegning, bykart design in Portuguese is projeto design in Swedish is konstruktion, planera

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