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Designed   /dɪzˈaɪnd/   Listen
Designed

adjective
1.
Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.  Synonym: intentional.  "Games designed for all ages" , "Well-designed houses"


Design

verb
(past & past part. designed; pres. part. designing)
1.
Make or work out a plan for; devise.  Synonyms: contrive, plan, project.  "Design a new sales strategy" , "Plan an attack"
2.
Plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect.
3.
Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner.
4.
Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.  Synonym: plan.  "Plan the new wing of the museum"
5.
Create designs.
6.
Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent.
7.
Intend or have as a purpose.



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"Designed" Quotes from Famous Books



... mischief of this new system is not confined to the depravation of language only; it extends to the sentiments and emotions, and leads to the debasement of all those feelings which poetry is designed to communicate. It is absurd to suppose, that an author should make use of the language of the vulgar, to express the sentiments of the refined. His professed object, in employing that language, is to bring his compositions nearer to the true ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... attraction—besides the view, the charming green turf for dining on, the facility for getting hot water, plates, glasses, &c., from a gardeners house, and a large hall in the same, good for dancing—was the singular colossal figure, representing "The Apennine," said to have been designed by Michael Angelo. One used to clamber up inside this figure, which sits in a half crouching attitude, and reach on the top of the head a platform, on which four or five persons could stand and ...
— What I Remember, Volume 2 • Thomas Adolphus Trollope
... regard the petty vexations of life that are constantly happening, as designed to keep us in practice for bearing great misfortunes, so that we may not become completely enervated by a career of prosperity. A man should be as Siegfried, armed cap-a-pie, towards the small troubles of every day—those little differences we have with our fellow-men, insignificant disputes, ...
— Counsels and Maxims - From The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... family property to her brother; and the only reason why he ever wished her to come into his sight again was that he might with a surer blow inflict upon her the punishment which Gloucester had designed for her. ...
— Margaret of Anjou - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... preachers who designed the moral gown for women did a good job. Now to design a woman who ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher


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