Word Meanings - DESIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
Additional info about word: DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DESIGN)
- Aim
- Tendency
- intent
- aspiration
- bent
- drift
- object
- scope
- goal
- purpose
- mark
- end
- design
- intention
- Aim Seek
- level
- propose
- affect
- intend
- mean
- Conceive
- Imagine
- apprehend
- believe
- suppose
- think
- understand
- Contemplate
- Meditate
- behold
- observe
- ponder
- study
- project
- Contrive
- Plan
- arrange
- fabricate
- adapt
- manage
- scheme
- devise
- concert
- adjust
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DESIGN)
- Roughen
- furrow
- disequalize
- graduate
- Recal
- withdraw
- draw
- retract
- pull
- attract
- rebound
- recoil
- adduce
- revert
- rebate
- Chance
- risk
- hazard
- revoke
- Miscalculate
- venture
- stake
Related words: (words related to DESIGN)
- THINKING
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - PROJECTION
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction - DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace - REVOKER
One who revokes. - INTENTIONALITY
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge. - OBJECTIVENESS
Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale - PONDEROUS
1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - DRIFTBOLT
A bolt for driving out other bolts. - SCOPELINE
Scopeloid. - REVERT
To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - CONTEMPLATE
contemplate; con- + templum a space for observation marked out by the 1. To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study. To love, - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - VENTURESOME
Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n. - RETRACTOR
One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. - PROJECTMENT
Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon. - DISVENTURE
A disadventure. Shelton. - HAEMATOSCOPE
A hæmoscope. - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
The tenets of the Sadducees. - LACTOSCOPE
An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity. - METEOROSCOPE
An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - OTOSCOPEIC
Of or pertaining to the otoscope or to otoscopy.