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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Design \De*sign"\ (?; 277), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Designed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Designing}.] [F. d['e]signer to designate, cf. F. dessiner to draw, dessin drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See {Sign}, and cf. {Design}, noun, {Designate}.]
1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. --Dryden.
2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. --Shak.
Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design. --Beau. & Fl.
3. 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.
4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. --Burke.
He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden.
Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Designing \De*sign"ing\, adjective Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Designing \De*sign"ing\, noun The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
designing
adjective: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: {scheming}]
noun: 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" [syn: {design}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "designing": Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abstract art, acute, arch, art, art form, artful, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, astute, cagey, calculating, calligraphy, canny, cave art, ceramics, clever, collusive, connivent, conniving, conspiring, contriving, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, decoration, deep, deep-laid, design, devious, diplomatic, double-dealing, engraving, etching, feline, fine arts, folk art, foxy, graphic arts, guileful, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, inventive, knowing, pawky, photography, plastic art, plotting, politic, primitive art, ready, resourceful, scheming, sculpture, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, stratagemical, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, the arts, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, underhanded, up to, vulpine, wary, wily
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