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Adjective: designed  di'zInd
  1. Done or made or performed with purpose and intent
    "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses"
    - intentional
Verb: design  di'zIn
  1. Make or work out a plan for; devise
    "design a new sales strategy"
    - plan, project, contrive
     
  2. Plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
    "This room is not designed for work"
     
  3. Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
    "Chanel designed the famous suit"
     
  4. Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form
    "design a better mousetrap"
    - plan
     
  5. Create designs
    "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
     
  6. Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
    "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"
     
  7. Intend or have as a purpose
    "She designed to go far in the world of business"

See also: designer, designing, fashioned

Type of: conceive, conceptualise [Brit], conceptualize, create, create by mental act, create mentally, designate, destine, gestate, intend, make, mean, specify, think

Antonym: undesigned

Encyclopedia: Design, Argument from Design Design, Build and Sell Scheme Design, Build & Sell Scheme

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