Dictionary Entry
design
design is a 6-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
- 2noun
To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
- 5intransitive verb
To form a design or designs; to plan.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
- 9noun
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.
- 10noun
The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
- 11noun
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"
Synonyms
- 12noun
a decorative or artistic work
"the coach had a design on the doors"
- 13noun
a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
"the design of a building"
- 14noun
the creation of something in the mind
- 15noun
an arrangement scheme
"the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"
"it was an excellent design for living"
Synonyms
- 16noun
something intended as a guide for making something else
"a blueprint for a house"
"a pattern for a skirt"
- 17noun
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"
- 18verb
intend or have as a purpose
"She designed to go far in the world of business"
- 19verb
plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
"This room is not designed for work"
- 20verb
conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
"She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"
- 21verb
make or work out a plan for; devise
"They contrived to murder their boss"
"design a new sales strategy"
- 22verb
make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form
"design a better mousetrap"
"plan the new wing of the museum"
Synonyms
- 23verb
create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
"Chanel designed the famous suit"
- 24verb
create designs
"Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
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