{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "dɪˈzaɪn" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/design.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/design.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "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." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "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." }, { "mean": "A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.\nThe initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive." }, { "mean": "A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.\nWe're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts" }, { "mean": "The composition of a work of art." }, { "mean": "Intention or plot.\nWe have designs on winning the league next season.\nTo be hateful of the truth by design.\n1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:\nI 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.\n1762, Charles Johnstone, The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools‎, 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 \n2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport‎: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.", "submean": [ "(particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.\nTo have evil designs." ] }, { "mean": "The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.\n1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎: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." }, { "mean": "The art of designing\nDanish furniture design is world-famous." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.). \n1863, 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 \n1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎: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." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).\nThe king designed to mount an expedition to the New World." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate. \n1646, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , London: T H 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.\n1700, John Dryden, Translations from Ovid's Epistles, Preface\nHe was designed to the study of the law." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint." }, { "mean": "To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.\n1595 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.\n1616–1619 (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." } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "design in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. 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