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English
Etymology
From Middle English designen , from Old French designer , from Latin designō ( “ I mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive ” ) , from de- (or dis- ) + signō ( “ I mark ” ) , from signum ( “ mark ” ) . Doublet of designate .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /dɪˈzaɪn/
Hyphenation: de‧sign
Rhymes: -aɪn
Noun
design (countable and uncountable , plural designs )
A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive.
A pattern , as an element of a work of art or architecture.
We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts
The composition of a work of art.
Intention or plot .
We have designs on winning the league next season.
To be hateful of the truth by design .
1763 , Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz , History of Louisisana , PG, page 40 :I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
1762 , Charles Johnstone , The Reverie; or, A Flight to the Paradise of Fools , volume 2, Dublin: Printed by Dillon Chamberlaine, →OCLC , page 202 :At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them [ …]
2011 June 28, Piers Newbery, “Wimbledon 2011: Sabine Lisicki beats Marion Bartoli”, in BBC Sport :Lisicki will rise from her current ranking of 62 to at least 35 in the world on the back of her efforts at the All England Club, but she will have serious designs on a first Grand Slam title after overcoming the 2007 runner-up.
( particularly ) Malicious or malevolent intention .
To have evil designs .
The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
1963 , Margery Allingham , “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery , London: Chatto & Windus , →OCLC :He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
The art of designing
Danish furniture design is world-famous.
Synonyms
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Translations
plan
Afrikaans: ontwerp (af)
Arabic: تَخْطِيط m ( taḵṭīṭ ) , تصميم ( taṣmīm )
Armenian: նախագիծ (hy) ( naxagic )
Bulgarian: план (bg) m ( plan ) , констру́кция (bg) f ( konstrúkcija ) , диза́йн (bg) m ( dizájn )
Catalan: disseny (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 設計 / 设计 (zh) ( shèjì )
Czech: návrh (cs) m
Dutch: ontwerp (nl) n
Estonian: kavand
Finnish: suunnitelma (fi) , malli (fi) , kaavio (fi) , rakennekaavio
French: conception (fr) f , plan (fr) m
Galician: deseño (gl) m
Georgian: გეგმა ( gegma )
German: Design (de) n , Entwurf (de) m , Plan (de) m
Greek: σχέδιο (el) n ( schédio )
Hindi: डिज़ाइन m ( ḍizāin )
Hungarian: terv (hu) , tervezet (hu) , vázlat (hu)
Icelandic: hönnun f
Italian: disegno (it) m , design (it) m , progetto (it) , pianta (it)
Japanese: 設計 (ja) ( せっけい, sekkei ) , デザイン (ja) ( dezain )
Korean: 설계(設計) (ko) ( seolgye ) , 계획(計劃) (ko) ( gyehoek ) , 디자인 (ko) ( dijain )
Kyrgyz: шөкөт (ky) ( şököt )
Ladino: desen
Malay: reka bentuk
Maltese: disinn
Persian: طراحی (fa) ( tarrâhi ) , دیزاین (fa) ( dizâyn ) , طرح (fa) ( tarh )
Plautdietsch: Plon m
Polish: projekt (pl) m inan , plan (pl) m inan , abrys (pl) m
Portuguese: projeto (pt) m , design (pt) m
Russian: план (ru) m ( plan ) , констру́кция (ru) f ( konstrúkcija ) , диза́йн (ru) m ( dizájn ) , прое́кт (ru) m ( proékt )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нацрт m , план m
Roman: nacrt (sh) m , plan (sh) m
Sindhi: َجنسار f ( Jinsaar-a )
Spanish: diseño (es) m , modelo (es) m
Tagalog: antangan
Turkish: dizayn (tr) , tasarım (tr)
pattern
Afrikaans: ontwerp (af)
Bulgarian: шарка (bg) f ( šarka ) , десен (bg) m ( desen )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 圖案 / 图案 (zh) ( tú'àn ) , 圖樣 / 图样 (zh) ( túyàng ) , 模式 (zh) ( móshì )
Dutch: dessin (nl)
Finnish: kuvio (fi) , design (fi) , kuviointi (fi) , kuosi (fi)
French: modèle (fr) f
Georgian: დიზაინი (ka) ( dizaini ) , მოდელი ( modeli )
German: Muster (de) n
Greek: σχέδιο (el) n ( schédio )
Hungarian: minta (hu)
Italian: design (it)
Japanese: 模様 (ja) ( もよう, moyō ) , デザイン (ja) ( dezain )
Korean: 무늬 (ko) ( munui )
Kyrgyz: шөкөт (ky) ( şököt )
Lao: ລິງລາຽ ( ling lāi )
Navajo: naʼashchʼąąʼ
Plautdietsch: Plon m
Polish: wzór (pl) m inan , motyw (pl) m inan
Portuguese: projeto (pt) m
Russian: узо́р (ru) m ( uzór ) , образе́ц (ru) m ( obrazéc ) , моде́ль (ru) f ( modɛ́lʹ ) , диза́йн (ru) m ( dizájn )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: узорак m , дизајн m , мустра f
Roman: uzorak (sh) m , dizajn (sh) m , mustra (sh) f
Spanish: modelo (es) m
Tagalog: antangan
Thai: แบบ (th) ( bɛ̀ɛp )
Turkish: desen (tr)
composition
Afrikaans: versameling (af)
Bulgarian: компози́ция (bg) f ( kompozícija ) , констру́кция (bg) f ( konstrúkcija )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 設計 / 设计 (zh) ( shèjì )
Finnish: sommittelu (fi) , sommitelma (fi) , asetelma (fi)
Georgian: კომპოზიცია ( ḳomṗozicia )
Hungarian: kialakítás (hu) , kivitelezés (hu) , kivitel (hu) , kompozíció (hu) , konstrukció (hu) , formatervezés (hu)
Korean: 설계(設計) (ko) ( seolgye )
Polish: kompozycja (pl) f
Russian: компози́ция (ru) f ( kompozícija ) , констру́кция (ru) f ( konstrúkcija )
Turkish: bileşim (tr) , kompozisyon (tr)
intention
Afrikaans: bedoeling (af)
Bashkir: ниәт ( niət )
Bulgarian: наме́рение (bg) n ( namérenie )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 打算 (zh) ( dǎsuàn, dǎsuan ) , 意圖 / 意图 (zh) ( yìtú )
Finnish: suunnitelma (fi) , juoni (fi) , aie (fi) , aikomus (fi)
French: dessein (fr) m , intention (fr) f
Georgian: ჩანაფიქრი ( čanapikri )
German: Absicht (de) f
Hungarian: szándék (hu) , terv (hu) , elgondolás (hu)
Italian: intenzione (it) f , piano (it) m , progettazione (it)
Japanese: 意図 (ja) ( いと, ito )
Korean: 의도(意圖) (ko) ( uido )
Occitan: dessenh (oc) m , intencion (oc) f
Polish: zamysł (pl) m inan , zamiar (pl) m inan
Portuguese: intenção (pt) f
Russian: план (ru) m ( plan ) , наме́рение (ru) n ( namérenije ) , за́мысел (ru) m ( zámysel ) , ( evil plot ) у́мысел (ru) m ( úmysel )
Scottish Gaelic: rùn m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: интенција f , накана f
Roman: intencija (sh) f , nakana (sh) f
Spanish: intención (es) f , voluntad (es) f
Turkish: niyet (tr)
Ukrainian: за́дум (uk) m ( zádum ) , за́мисел m ( zámysel ) , за́мір m ( zámir ) , на́мір (uk) m ( námir ) , план (uk) m ( plan )
appearance
Afrikaans: ontwerp (af)
Bulgarian: диза́йн (bg) m ( dizájn )
Finnish: muotoilu (fi) , design (fi) , kuosi (fi)
German: Entwurf (de) m
Hungarian: kinézet (hu) , kialakítás (hu) , arculat (hu) , formaterv , stílus (hu) , dizájn (hu)
Italian: design (it)
Korean: 모습 (ko) ( moseup )
Polish: wzór (pl) m inan , krój (pl) m inan ( of a typeface ) , design (pl) m inan , dizajn (pl) m inan
Russian: диза́йн (ru) m ( dizájn ) , вне́шний вид (ru) m ( vnéšnij vid ) , экстерье́р (ru) m ( ekstɛrʹjér )
Turkish: tasarım (tr)
art of designing
Afrikaans: ontwerp (af)
Albanian: dizajn m
Arabic: تَصْمِيم m ( taṣmīm )
Armenian: դիզայն (hy) ( dizayn )
Azerbaijani: dizayn
Belarusian: дыза́йн m ( dyzájn )
Bulgarian: диза́йн (bg) m ( dizájn )
Burmese: ဒီဇိုင်း (my) ( dijuing: )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 設計 / 设计 (zh) ( shèjì )
Czech: design (cs) m
Danish: design c
Dutch: vormgeving (nl) , ontwerp (nl) n , design (nl) n
Estonian: disain
Finnish: muotoilu (fi) , design (fi) , suunnittelu (fi) , sommittelu (fi)
French: design (fr) m
Georgian: დიზაინი (ka) ( dizaini )
German: Design (de) n , Entwurf (de) m
Greek: σχέδιο (el) n ( schédio )
Hebrew: עיצוב m ( 'ytzuv )
Hindi: डिज़ाइन ( ḍizāin )
Hungarian: formatervezés (hu) , tervezőművészet , dizájn (hu)
Italian: design (it) m
Japanese: デザイン (ja) ( dezain )
Kazakh: дизайн ( dizain )
Korean: 디자인 (ko) ( dijain )
Kyrgyz: дизайн (ky) ( dizayn )
Latvian: dizains m
Lithuanian: dizainas m
Macedonian: дизајн m ( dizajn )
Mongolian: дизайн (mn) ( dizajn )
Persian: طراحی (fa) ( tarrâhi ) , دیزاین (fa) ( dizâyn )
Polish: wzornictwo n , design (pl) m
Portuguese: desenho (pt) m
Romanian: design (ro) n
Russian: диза́йн (ru) m ( dizájn )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дизајн m
Roman: dizajn (sh)
Slovak: dizajn m
Slovene: dizajn m , oblikovanje n
Spanish: diseño (es) m
Swedish: design (sv) c , formgivning (sv) c , formgivning (sv) c
Tajik: дизайн ( dizayn )
Thai: การออกแบบ (th) ( gaan-ɔ̀ɔk-bɛ̀ɛp )
Turkish: tasarım (tr) , dizayn (tr)
Turkmen: dizaýn
Ukrainian: диза́йн (uk) m ( dyzájn )
Uzbek: dizayn (uz)
Vietnamese: thiết kế (vi)
Translations to be checked
Verb
design (third-person singular simple present designs , present participle designing , simple past and past participle designed )
( transitive ) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
1863 , Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard :She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the Staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend [ …]
1963 , Margery Allingham , chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery , London: Chatto & Windus , →OCLC :The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
( obsolete , intransitive ) To plan (to do something).
The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.
( obsolete , transitive ) To assign , appoint (something to someone); to designate .
1700 , John Dryden , Translations from Ovid's Epistles , Preface:He was designed to the study of the law.
( obsolete , transitive ) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare , “The life and death of King Richard the Second ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio ), London: Isaac Iaggard , and Ed Blount , published 1623 , →OCLC , :We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher , Philip Massinger , Nathan Field , “The Knight of Malta ”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson , , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647 , →OCLC , Act I, scene iii:Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .
Derived terms
Translations
Translations to be checked
Further reading
“design ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
“design ”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC .
“design ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
design m inan
design
Declension
Declension of design (hard masculine inanimate )
Further reading
design in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
design in Akademický slovník cizích slov , 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English design .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /diˈzɑi̯n/
Hyphenation: de‧sign
Noun
design n (plural designs )
design
Synonyms
Finnish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English design .
Pronunciation
Noun
design
design
Synonym: suunnittelu
Declension
or
Derived terms
Further reading
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English design . Doublet of dessein .
Pronunciation
Noun
design m (plural designs )
design
Hungarian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English design , from Latin designō ( “ I mark out, describe, plan ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
design (countable and uncountable , plural designok )
design ( art and profession of designing functional objects such as furniture, vehicles, household appliances, etc. )
Synonym: formatervezés
Declension
Derived terms
See at dizájn .
Further reading
dizájn in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English design .
Pronunciation
Noun
design m (invariable )
design (industrial)
References
Anagrams
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
design
imperative of designe
Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English design , from Middle English designen , from Old French designer , from Latin dēsignō .
Pronunciation
Noun
design m inan
( design ) design ( plan of usable objects )
Synonym: wzornictwo
( design ) design ( appearance of usable objects )
Hypernym: wygląd
Declension
Related terms
Further reading
design in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
design in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English design . Doublet of desenhar and designar .
Pronunciation
Noun
design m (plural designs )
design ( plan for the structure and functions of an object or system )
Synonyms: projeto , desenho
design ( aesthetically pleasing shape or appearance of an object )
design ( the art of designing aesthetically pleasing things )
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English design .
Noun
design n (uncountable )
design
Declension
declension of design (singular only)
singular
n gender
indefinite articulation
definite articulation
nominative/accusative
(un) design
designul
genitive/dative
(unui) design
designului
vocative
designule
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English design .
Pronunciation
Noun
design c
a design
Declension
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Anagrams