verb
- Make or work out a plan for; devise.
- usage: "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
- Plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect.
- usage: "This room is not designed for work"
- synonyms: design
- Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner.
- usage: "Chanel designed the famous suit"
- synonyms: design
- Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.
- usage: "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"
- Create designs.
- usage: "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
- synonyms: design
- Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent.
- usage: "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"
- synonyms: design
- Intend or have as a purpose.
- usage: "She designed to go far in the world of business"
- synonyms: design
adjective
- Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.
- usage: "style... Is more than the deliberate and designed creation- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses"
- synonyms: intentional
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