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Designing   /dɪzˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Designing

noun
1.
The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan).  Synonym: design.
adjective
1.
Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest.  Synonym: scheming.  "A scheming wife" , "A scheming gold digger"


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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"Designing" Quotes from Famous Books



... first Napoleon, may fairly be claimed for M. de Lesseps. His attention was doubtless first drawn to it by reading the memorable report of M. la Pere, who was employed by Bonaparte to make a survey in 1798. The credit of designing and executing the great work belongs alike to him. With the general plan, progress, and purpose of the Canal, the American reader has, during the past few months, been ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various
... why I have sacrificed my professional prospects at a time when they first began to look cheering, in order to share the hardships and perils of a soldier's life. But I need not explain, to you, my reasons for doing so. When our country is threatened with destruction by base and designing men, in order to gratify personal ambition and love of sway, it becomes her sons to go to her rescue and avert the impending ruin. The rebelling South has yet to learn the difference between the true principles of the Constitution and the delusion ...
— Sword and Pen - Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier • John Algernon Owens
... man, and much more to the Christian. The sale of indulgences is not true of Romanism only. Throughout the realms of Protestantism there is a shameful sale of these indulgences in an indirect way. Wicked and designing men are tolerated and fellowshiped by the sect ministry because of their liberality to the church. It is true it matters not if a man does occasionally get drunk, or if he does defraud his neighbor, or commit ...
— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr
... The designing of a coat-of-arms had been no light task to Paul. From the moment—now five months ago—that he knew his promotion to the nobility was a settled affair, he had devoted the best part of his thoughts to this weighty question. He hesitated long between medieval simplicity ...
— The Malady of the Century • Max Nordau
... reconstruction period here in Columbia. My parents lived until I was about grown and we kept the middle of the road, in the matter of selling out to the Federal soldiers and carpet-baggers on the one hand, or to designing politicians on the other. But my father was an admirer of General Hampton, because General Hampton owned many Negroes at one time and had treated them well. Between Hampton and Chamberlain for governor, in 1876, most of my Negro ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration


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