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1. Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
   "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue";
   - scheming

1. The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch, outline or plan)
   "he contributed to the designing of a new instrument";
   - design

1. Make or work out a plan for; devise
   "design a new sales strategy";
   - plan, project, contrive
    
2. Plan something for a specific role, 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 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"

Derived forms: designings

See also: artful

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

Encyclopedia: Designing