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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Design \De*sign"\ (?; 277), v. t. [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}, n., {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.
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     2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to
        show; to point out; to appoint.
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              We shall see
              Justice design the victor's chivalry. --Shak.
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              Meet me to-morrow where the master
              And this fraternity shall design.     --Beau. & Fl.
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     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.
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     4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the
        remote object, but sometimes with to.
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              Ask of politicians the end for which laws were
              originally designed.                  --Burke.
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              He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden.
  
     Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project;
          mean.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Design \De*sign"\, n. [Cf. dessein, dessin.]
     1. 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.
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     2. 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.
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              The vast design and purpos? of the King. --Tennyson.
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              The leaders of that assembly who withstood the
              designs of a besotted woman.          --Hallam.
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              A . . . settled design upon another man's life.
                                                    --Locke.
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              How little he could guess the secret designs of the
              court!                                --Macaulay.
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     3. Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred
        from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument
        from design.
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     4. 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.
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     5. (Mus.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the
        disposition of every part, and the general order of the
        whole.
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     {Arts of design}, those into which the designing of artistic
        forms and figures enters as a principal part, as
        architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture.
  
     {School of design}, one in which are taught the invention and
        delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns,
        and the like.
  
     Syn: Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea.
  
     Usage: {Design}, {Intention}, {Purpose}. Design has reference
            to something definitely aimed at. Intention points to
            the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought.
            Purpose has reference to a settled choice or
            determination for its attainment. "I had no design to
            injure you," means it was no part of my aim or object.
            "I had no intention to injure you," means, I had no
            wish or desire of that kind. "My purpose was directly
            the reverse," makes the case still stronger.
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                  Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only
                  for a day, without any prospect to the remaining
                  part of his life?                 --Tillotson.
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                  I wish others the same intention, and greater
                  successes.                        --Sir W.
                                                    Temple.
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                  It is the purpose that makes strong the vow.
                                                    --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Design \De*sign"\, v. i.
     To form a design or designs; to plan.
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     {Design for}, to intend to go to. [Obs.] "From this city she
        designed for Collin [Cologne]." --Evelyn.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  design
       n 1: 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: {designing}]
       2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard
          made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for
          living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: {plan}]
       3: something intended as a guide for making something else; "a
          blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" [syn: {blueprint},
           {pattern}]
       4: a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on
          the doors" [syn: {pattern}, {figure}]
       5: an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your
          planned actions; "his intent was to provide a new
          translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was
          created with the conscious aim of answering immediate
          needs"; "he made no secret of his designs" [syn: {purpose},
           {intent}, {intention}, {aim}]
       6: a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something; "the
          design of a building"
       7: the creation of something in the mind [syn: {invention}, {innovation},
           {excogitation}, {conception}]
       v 1: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
            murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan
            an attack" [syn: {plan}, {project}, {contrive}]
       2: design 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 the new wing of
          the museum" [syn: {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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  438 Moby Thesaurus words for "design":
     abstract art, action, aim, aim at, ambition, anagnorisis, angle,
     animus, approach, architectonics, architecture, argument, arrange,
     arrangement, art, art form, art object, artful dodge, artifice,
     artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, aspiration, aspire after,
     aspire to, atmosphere, attack, background, background detail,
     bag of tricks, balance, be after, beget, black and white, blind,
     blueprint, blueprinting, bluff, bosey, brainchild, breed,
     bric-a-brac, bring forth, bring into being, brouillon, brushwork,
     cabal, calculate, calculation, call into being, calligraphy,
     canon form, cartoon, cast, catastrophe, catch, cave art, ceramics,
     chalk, characterization, charcoal, charcoal drawing, chart,
     charting, chiaroscuro, chicanery, chouse, classic, coin, color,
     complication, composition, conation, conceive, conception, concert,
     concoct, configuration, connivance, conniving, conspiracy,
     constitution, construct, construction, contemplate, continuity,
     contrivance, contrive, cook up, copy, counsel, coup, craft, crayon,
     create, creation, crosshatch, curve, curve-ball, cut out,
     cute trick, dash off, daub, deceit, decoration,
     decorative composition, decorative style, deliberation, delineate,
     delineation, denouement, depict, desideration, desideratum,
     designing, designs, desire, destine, detail, determination,
     determine, develop, development, device, devise, diagram,
     dirty deal, dirty trick, disposition, dodge, doodle, dope out,
     draft, draftsmanship, draw, draw up, drawing, dream up, drive at,
     ebauche, effect, elevation, engender, engraving, enterprise,
     envisage, envisagement, envision, episode, esquisse, etching,
     evil intent, evolve, expedient, fable, fabricate, fakement,
     falling action, fashion, fast deal, feint, fetch, ficelle, figure,
     figuring, fine arts, fixed purpose, foil, folk art, forecast,
     foreground detail, foresight, forethought, forge, form, format,
     formation, frame, fugue form, function, gambit, game, game plan,
     generate, gimmick, give being to, give rise to, go for, goal,
     googly, graph, graphic arts, graphing, grift, grotesque,
     ground plan, grouping, guidelines, harbor a design, hatch,
     have every intention, hocus-pocus, house plan, ichnography, idea,
     improvise, incident, intend, intendment, intent, intention,
     intrigue, invent, invention, joker, juggle, jugglery, kitsch,
     knavery, lay out, lay plans, layout, lied form, limn, line,
     line drawing, lineup, little game, local color, long-range plan,
     machination, make, make a projection, make arrangements,
     make do with, make up, maneuver, manipulation, map, map out,
     mapping, master, master plan, masterpiece, masterwork, mature,
     mean, meaning, method, methodize, methodology, mind, mint, mobile,
     model, mood, motif, motive, mould, move, movement, museum piece,
     mythos, national style, nisus, nude, object, objective, old master,
     operations research, organization, organize, originate,
     ornamental motif, outline, paint, paint a picture, painterliness,
     pass, pastel, pasticcio, pastiche, pattern, pen-and-ink, pencil,
     pencil drawing, period style, peripeteia, perspective, photography,
     picture, picturize, piece, piece of virtu, plan, plan ahead,
     planning, planning function, plastic art, plot, ploy, point,
     portray, prearrange, prearrangement, primary form, primitive art,
     procedure, procreate, produce, profile, program, program of action,
     project, projection, proposal, propose, prospectus, prototype,
     purport, purpose, racket, rationalization, rationalize,
     recognition, red herring, reflection, repeated figure, resolution,
     resolve, rising action, rondo form, rough, rough copy, rough draft,
     rough outline, ruse, sake, schedule, schema, schematism,
     schematization, schematize, scheme, scheme of arrangement, scratch,
     sculpture, scumble, scurvy trick, secondary plot, set out, set up,
     setting, setup, shade, shading, shadow, shape, shift, silhouette,
     silver-print drawing, sinopia, skeleton, sketch, sketch out, slant,
     sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, sonata allegro,
     sonata form, spawn, stabile, statue, stencil, still life, story,
     stratagem, strategic plan, strategy, strike out, striving,
     structure, study, style, subject, subplot, subterfuge, switch,
     symphonic form, system, systematization, systematize, table,
     tactic, tactical plan, tactics, target, technique, the arts,
     the big picture, the picture, thematic development, theme, think,
     think of, think out, think up, thinking, thought, tint,
     toccata form, tone, topic, touch, trace, tracing, treatment, trick,
     trickery, twist, undertaking, values, view, vignette, virtu,
     visualize, volition, way, wile, will, wily device, work,
     work of art, work out, work up, working drawing, working plan
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  design
       
           The approach that engineering (and some other)
          disciplines use to specify how to create or do something.  A
          successful design must satisfies a (perhaps informal)
          {functional specification} (do what it was designed to do);
          conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is
          possible to implement); meets implicit or explicit
          requirements on performance and resource usage (it is
          efficient enough).
       
          A design may also have to satisfy restrictions on the design
          process itself, such as its length or cost, or the tools
          available for doing the design.
       
          In the {software life-cycle}, design follows {requirements
          analysis} and is followed by implementation.
       
          ["Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", 2nd
          ed., Grady Booch].
       
          (1996-12-08)
       
       

















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