Designed

3 definitions found

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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  designed
       adj 1: planned or created in an artistic or skilled manner; "a
              beautifully designed dress"; "some Italian designed
              sandals have cushioning"
       2: done or made or performed with purpose and intent;
          "style...is more than the deliberate and designed
          creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages";
          "well-designed houses" [syn: {intentional}] [ant: {undesigned}]
       3: carefully practiced or designed or premeditated; "a studied
          reply" [syn: {designed(a)}, {studied(a)}]
       4: organized so as to give configuration to; "a magnet is
          surrounded by a configured field"; "a vehicle designed for
          rough terrain" [syn: {configured}]

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

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "designed":
     advised, aforethought, aimed, aimed at, arranged, blueprinted,
     calculated, charted, conscious, considered, contemplated,
     contrived, decided, deliberate, deliberated, determined, devised,
     envisaged, envisioned, figured, in the works, intended,
     intentional, knowing, meant, meditated, methodized, of design,
     on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet,
     on the docket, on the tapis, organized, planned, plotted,
     premeditated, prepense, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful,
     purposive, rationalized, resolved, scheduled, schematized, set,
     shaped, strategetic, strategic, studied, studious, sur le tapis,
     systematized, tactical, teleological, thought-out, voluntary,
     willful, witting, worked out