Design : (noun)
1: the act of working out the form of something (as by making a
sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the
design of a new instrument" [syn: designing]
2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: plan]
3: something intended as a guide for making something else; "a
blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" [syn: blueprint,
pattern]
4: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on
the doors" [syn: pattern, figure]
5: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your
planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new
translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was
created with the conscious aim of answering immediate
needs"; "he made no secret of his designs" [syn: purpose,
intent, intention, aim]
6: a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something; "the
design of a building"
7: the creation of something in the mind [syn: invention, innovation,
excogitation, conception]
(verb)
1: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan
an attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive]
2: design something for a specific role or purpose or effect;
"This room is not designed for work"
3: create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or
highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit"
4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic
form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of
the museum" [syn: plan]
5: create designs; "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
6: conceive or fashion in the mind; invent; "She designed a
good excuse for not attending classes that day"
7: intend or have as a purpose; "She designed to go far in the
world of business"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Design : \De*sign"\, v. i.
To form a design or designs; to plan.
Design for, to intend to go to. [Obs.] ``Based on this city she
designed for Collin [Cologne].'' --Evelyn.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Design : \De*sign"\, n. [Cf. dessein, dessin.]
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.
The vast design and purpos? of the King. --Tennyson.
The leaders of that assembly who withstood the
designs of a besotted woman. --Hallam.
A . . . settled design upon another man's life.
--Locke.
How little he could guess the secret designs of the
court! --Macaulay.
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.
Arts of design, those into which the designing of artistic
forms and figures enters as a principal part, as
architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture.
School of design, one in which are taught the invention and
delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns,
and the like.
Syn: Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea.
Usage: Design, Intention, Purpose. Design has reference
to something definitely aimed at. Intention points to
the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought.
Purpose has reference to a settled choice or
determination for its attainment. ``I had no design to
injure you,'' means it was no part of my aim or
object. ``I had no intention to injure you,'' means, I
had no wish or desire of that kind. ``My purpose was
directly the reverse,'' makes the case still stronger.
Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only
for a day, without any prospect to the remaining
part of his life? --Tillotson.
I wish others the same intention, and greater
successes. --Sir W.
Temple.
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow.
--Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Design : \De*sign"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Designed; p.
pr. & vb. n. Designing.] [F. d['e]signer to designate, cf.
F. dessiner to draw, dessin drawing, dessein a plan or
scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de-
_ signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See Sign,
and cf. Design, n., Designate.]
1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch
for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to
draw. --Dryden.
2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to
show; to point out; to appoint.
We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry.
--Shak.
Meet me to-morrow where the master And this
fraternity shall design. --Beau. & Fl.
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.
Ask of politicians the end for which laws were
originally designed. --Burke.
He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden.
Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project;
mean.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Design :
The approach that engineering (and some other)
disciplines use to specify how to create or do something. A
successful design must satisfies a (perhaps informal)
functional specification (do what it was designed to do);
conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is
possible to implement); meets implicit or explicit
requirements on performance and resource usage (it is
efficient enough).
A design may also have to satisfy restrictions on the design
process itself, such as its length or cost, or the tools
available for doing the design.
In the software life-cycle, design follows requirements
analysis and is followed by implementation.
["Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", 2nd
ed., Grady Booch].
(1996-12-08)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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