Word Finder - design

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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.

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A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.

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A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

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The composition of a work of art.

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Intention or plot.

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To be hateful of the truth by design.

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The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.

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The art of designing

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Danish furniture design is world-famous.

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To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).

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To plan (to do something).

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The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.

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To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.

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To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

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To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.

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The client had me create new designs until they were satisfied with one.

Sonya sat in the drawing room at the round table, copying a design for embroidery.

It's a Lou Rankin design, Fred answered.

That was something she had trouble imagining, but the wrought iron design was open and graceful.

As the design was somewhat complicated, the slightest jar made the structure fall.

Design especially was under suspicion with him.

The Temple of the Cross is a larger structure of similar design and construction.

Mill directs his attention to the Design argument.

The military doesn't buy their haircuts, website design, or piano lessons.

In 1538 an embassy of German divines visited England with the design, among other things, of forming a common confession for the two countries.

This design he certainly failed to realize.

The central feature of the estate is a château (375 X 150 ft.) of French Renaissance design, after the famous chateau at Blois, France.

The Design argument is held to give a contrasted view.

That is what Kant contended that the Design argument pointed to, and Mill, proceeding on the Design argument, claims nothing more for his conclusion.

He could conceal his design up to the very last.

In the United States few railway companies design or build their own bridges.

The third part of the Summa is also divided into two parts, but by accident rather than by design.

There are rows of hieroglyphics on the sides and over the central design.

He will not have the Ontological argument; but he asserts Natural Law, and relies upon the cosmological and design arguments - with various refinements and distinctions, differently stated in his two Summae.

Still, the Design argument is a good sample of a proof by means of the inferior method.

Wollaston also published anonymously a small book, On the Design of the Book of Ecclesiastes, or the Unreasonableness of Men's Restless Contention for the Present Enjoyments, represented in an English Poem (London, 1691).

The building, of beautiful classical design, and admirably adapted to its uses, was completed in 1916.

On hearing of the death of the poet Dakiki, he conceived the ambitious design of himself carrying out the work which the latter had only just commenced; and, although he had not then any introduction to the court, he contrived, thanks to one of his friends, Mahommed Lashkari, to procure a copy of the Dihkan Danishwer's collection, and at the age of thirty-six commenced his great undertaking.

It is rich, ornate, yet hardly florid, distinguished by splendid effects of light and shade, obtained by a far bolder use of projections than had hitherto been found in the somewhat fiat design of Venetian façades.

They then took the vows of poverty and chastity, and pledged themselves to go to the Holy Land as missionaries or for the purpose of tending the sick; or if this design should prove impracticable, to go to Rome and place themselves at the disposal of the pope for any purpose.

The windows in the outer walls are filled with pierced stone screens of geometrical design.

Galgano (infra), built in black and white marble, was begun in the early years of the 13th century, but interrupted by the plague of 1248 and wars at home and abroad, and in 1317 its walls were extended to the baptistery of San Giovanni; a further enlargement was begun in 1339 but never carried out, and a few ruined walls and arches alone remain to show the magnificence of the uncompleted design, which would have produced one of the largest churches in the-world.

Provision was made in the design, by Sir Aston Webb, for the extension of the Mall to open upon Trafalgar Square, through gateways in a semicircular range of buildings to be occupied by government offices, and for a wide circular space in front of the Palace, with a statue of the Queen by Thomas Brock in its centre.

Lucke's Journal(1819-18 20, 182 2), one on the origin and composition of the Sibylline Oracles "- Ober die Entstehung and Zusammensetzung der Sibyllinischen Orakel," and another on the authorship and design of the Book of Daniel, "Uber Verfasser and Zweck des Buches Daniel."

You know that at five-and-twenty he formed the design of becoming perfectly wise and that he fulfilled his design.

The design is generally framed at the outset with a ribbon of thin metal, precisely after the manner of ordinary cloisonn ware.

In other words, a suitable design is chiselled in the metal base so as to be visible through Translucid the diaphanous enamel.

It is probable that if bulk, rapidity of production, variety of matter, originality of design, and excellence of style be taken together, hardly any author can show a work of equal magnitude.

Others were "Elijah in the Wilderness" (1879), "Elisha raising the Son of the Shunammite" (1881) and a design intended for the decoration of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, "And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it" (1892), now in the Tate Gallery, and the terrible "Rizpah" of 1893.

He made the beautiful design for the reverse of the Jubilee Medal of 1887.

While we recognize in the De Rerum Natura some of the most powerful poetry in any language and feel that few poets have penetrated with such passionate sincerity and courage into the secret of nature and some of the deeper truths of human life, we must acknowledge that, as compared with the great didactic poem of Virgil, it is crude and unformed in artistic design, and often rough and unequal in artistic execution.

In obedience to these they often travelled hundreds of miles in company with, or in the wake of, their intended victims before a safe opportunity presented itself for executing their design; and, when the deed was done, rites were performed in honour of that tutelary deity, and a goodly portion of the spoil was set apart for her.

Naples, in writing the little treatise (afterwards included in the Characteristics) entitled A Notion of the Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules, and the letter concerning Design.

The Letter on Design was first published in the edition of the Characteristics issued in 1732.

Most of the older churches are classical in design, and the most notable are St George's, in High Street, and the Memorial church of Dr Cooke in May Street.

The same year he was chosen to design a monument for Warsaw, commemorating the rebirth of Poland.

But the habit of excessive bugling and band-playing betrayed the French design even before daybreak.

The four palaces, of uniform design, encircling this plads, were built for the residence of four noble families; but on the destruction of Christiansborg in 1794 they became the residence of the king and court, and so continued till the death of Christian VIII.

For Philo lays stress upon the weakness of the analogical argument, points out that the demand for an ultimate cause is no more satisfied by thought than by nature itself, shows that the argument from design cannot warrant the inference of a perfect or infinite or even of a single deity, and finally, carrying out his principles to the full extent, maintains that, as we have no experience of the origin of the world, no argument from experience can carry us to its origin, and that the apparent marks of design in the structure of animals are only results from the conditions of their actual existence.

Among the principal buildings are the cathedral (rebuilt in the 16th century), and several other churches, among which the Mariae Kirke with its Romanesque nave is the earliest; a hospital, diocesan college, naval academy, school of design and a theatre.

More commonly the term is applied to the doctrine that the universe as a whole has been planned on a definite design, or at least that it tends towards some end.

Though John Rennie had meanwhile been associated with Stevenson as consulting engineer, the structure in design and details is wholly Stevenson's work.

The pan-Islamic press, allowed full licence by the Cairo authorities, spread abroad rumours that the Egyptian government intended to construct fortifications in the Sinai peninsula with the design of menacing the railway, under construction by Turkey, from Damascus to Mecca.

There is as much secrecy about the cooking as if he had a design to poison you.

And the risk to which he would expose his life by carrying out his design excited him still more.

Moreover, at this moment Pierre was supported in his design and prevented from renouncing it by what he had already done in that direction.