Definition of Design

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Design

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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

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.

To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.

To form a design or designs; to plan.

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.

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.

Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.

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.

The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

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Design Quotations

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Walt Disney

The artist in me cries out for design.
Robert Frost

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Henry David Thoreau

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
Marcus Aurelius

Design Translations

design in Afrikaans is skets, plan
design in Danish is plan, tegne
design in Dutch is werkje, schets, tekening
design in French is dessin, planification, dessiner, projet, croquer
design in German is Planung, entwerfen
design in Italian is progetto, disegno, abbozzare, progettazione
design in Norwegian is tegning, bykart
design in Portuguese is projeto
design in Swedish is konstruktion, planera

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