单词 | designer |
释义 | designer1 noundesigner2 adjective designerde‧sign‧er1 /dɪˈzaɪnə $ -ər/ ●●○ W3 noun [countable] ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorpeople► user/computer user Collocations someone who uses a computer: · Most computer users do not realize how much their computers can do.· Users often complain that the Internet is slow and unreliable.user-friendly (=easy to use): · The program is remarkably user-friendly and can be learned by anyone. ► programmer/computer programmer someone whose job is to write programs: · Computer programmers are in great demand, and a good one can earn a very high salary. ► techie informal someone who works in computing or who knows a lot about computers: · I don't even bother trying to fix things that go wrong on my computer - I leave that to the techies. ► hacker someone who secretly and often illegally gets into another person's or company's computer system: · Hackers broke into the Pentagon's security system last night. ► software developer/engineer/designer someone whose job is to make software: · Software developers need to be aware that not all users are technical experts. ► systems analyst someone whose job involves studying business or industrial systems, and who uses computers to plan improvements or changes: · His first job as a systems analyst was to reorganize they way the store's stock was recorded. ► IT support British /tech support American people whose job involves making sure that the computers in an organization are working properly: · If you're not prepared to pay for adequate IT support, it's no wonder you lose so much time through computer problems. someone whose job is designing things► designer someone whose job is to design new machines, furniture, clothes etc: · Designers at Ford say the car's soft shape is supposed to be attractive to women.fashion/furniture/software etc designer: · The show features clothes by famous fashion designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier.· Anyone with experience as a Web page designer can easily get a job. ► architect someone whose job is to design buildings: · The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was designed by the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.· We're working with a team of architects on the plans for the new building. ► planner someone who is responsible for planning something large such as a city, park, or large public building: · City planners have been working for years on a new design for the plaza.· Planners expect the new segment of the subway to carry as many as 3,000 people per day. WORD SETS► Designcross-hatching, nouncutaway, adjectivedesigner, noundrawing board, nounemblem, nounengrave, verbengraving, nounetch, verbetching, nounflowery, adjectivefluted, adjectiveherringbone, nounincise, verbinlaid, adjectivepaisley, nounpatterned, adjectiveplot, nounreticulated, adjectiveschema, nounscroll, nounsection, nounstyle, verbswirl, nountracing, nountracing paper, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYtypes of designer► a fashion designer Phrases (=for clothes)· the well-known fashion designer, Giorgio Armani ► a dress designer (=for clothes for women)· Christian Lacroix was one of Paris's most flamboyant dress designers. ► a top designer (=a very good and famous fashion designer)· She always wore clothes by top designers. ► an interior designer (=for the colours, materials etc inside people's homes)· The apartment's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer. ► a graphic designer (=who designs the way pictures and words look in books, magazines etc)· He's been working as a graphic designer for two years. ► a software/program designer (=for computer programs)· Software designers are working on a new operating system. ► a Web designer (=for websites)· The software allows Web designers to embed small programs into their webpages. ► a garden/landscape designer (=for gardens)· A landscape designer was commissioned to design the garden. ► a furniture designer· The tables and chairs were made by the furniture designer Robert White. ► a costume designer (=for clothes for the actors in a play)· He spent eight years as a costume designer for TV commercials. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► designer clothes (=made by a well-known designer)· She spends hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. ► designer clothing (=made by a well-known designer) ► a dress designer (=someone whose job is designing women’s clothes)· She’s a former royal dress designer. ► designer drugs (=produced artificially from chemicals)· Designer drugs are highly addictive and can have unpredictable side effects. ► a fashion designer· Her favourite fashion designers include Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre. ► a software developer/engineer/designer· her job as a software developer ► designer wear· I can’t afford designer wear. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► chief· The new bike's unique styling is the work of Ducati's chief designer Pierre Terblanche.· Jim Redding, my chief mechanical designer, and I followed the lorry all the way to make sure nothing went amiss.· According to Ilyushin chief designer I.Y. Katyrev performance targets include a cruising speed of 113-127 knots and a with-reserves range of 770 miles. ► good· Computer-aided design may make a good designer out of a sloppy one.· I need Rouben TerArutunian and the best young designers.· He wondered if he'd have made a good interior designer.· To do anything interesting with the software a good programmer and designer will be needed.· Government will commission the best designers, artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.· There's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we've put our best designers to work on our range.· It's not good us training designers who then just sit and work in a creative vacuum.· If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label. ► graphic· Second prize went to graphic designer Beverley Dowson, 22, of Bishop Auckland.· But 230 pounds was life-threatening for a 5-foot-1-inch graphic designer named Rachel Kochackis.· Visual communication is not the exclusive domain of the graphic designer or the advertising executive.· The questionnaire itself will be made more user-friendly, said Sylvia Harris, a census consultant and graphic designer at Yale University.· Ballard, 29, a graphic designer from Stockbridge, Edinburgh.· Melinda Bergman Burgener is a free-lance writer and graphic designer who lives in San Francisco.· She then undertook a geographical and creative pilgrimage, working as an art instructor, graphic designer and book illustrator. ► great· The greatest designers can sway with the prevailing mood of the moment, but remain fundamentally true to their own spirit.· He was also one of the greatest aircraft designers of all time.· This in itself is a great help to designers even before any analysis of their new product is undertaken.· I do not imply some teleological goal-seeking or the existence of a great designer with an aim in mind.· There's a much, much larger range of great designer clothes over here because it's just a bigger population.· The characteristic styles of great architects and designers may be seen clearly reflected - Chippendale, Sheraton, Adam and Hepplewhite.· John Barnard, the world's greatest designer, has been recruited by new team mastermind Harvey Postlethwaite.· I became a house model for the great designer Jean Muir and it was a wonderful foundation because she was meticulous. ► industrial· He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952.· This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery.· He became arguably the first industrial designer, working in ceramic, glass, metal, furniture, wallpapers, and textiles.· The competitive pressures of the market place have restrained industrial designers from the austerities that afflicted architects. ► interior· He wondered if he'd have made a good interior designer.· Eighty interior designers had gathered to hear her at the Washington Design Center.· Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch.· Both tap the opinions of fashion and interior designers and make predictions several years before the colors hit the market.· The previous owners, one an interior designer, had renovated the whole place very much to Sue and Reg's taste.· Few carpet companies exhibit, making it an even more exclusive event for Stoddard Mercia amongst Britain's leading interior designers.· Happy to co-ordinate with interior designers, architects or contractors. ► new· Curve's new lighting designer, Lawrence, is soon to join the police force.· Until I can afford a new pair of designer boxer shorts, I will go along with that.· Shape too has some new imperatives: designers have learnt the vocabulary of active sportswear shapes.· Robin Fior had left, and a new designer had arrived.· I need a new designer and you need to find a way out of a considerable financial mess.· As he did all his life, he also found and encouraged new designers and composers.· He brought in a new interior designer, Ghislaine Belmont-Laon; her work on these showrooms made her name. ► original· Indeed, even the original bike's designer, Miguel Galluzzi, hasn't been able to significantly improve on it. ► professional· Students learning to be future professional designers will need to think about designing with everyone's needs in mind.· He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer, and Dinah had disabused him. ► top· Three top designers were approached at an undisclosed cost.· My gratitude to the top designers for their wonderful patterns, the Teach-in series and oh so very much more.· It does help, of course, if one of the world's top designers is behind it all.· Nowadays, many top designers also produce mass-produced goods which we can buy in the local department store.· Now, however, it seems that even among the top designers, obsolescence is obsolete.· For nomination, top designers, leaders in their field, were chosen by professional bodies and organisations. ► young· Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer, would it?· I need Rouben TerArutunian and the best young designers. NOUN► clothes· Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.· They date and marry stars, dress in designer clothes, and are phenomenally rich and cosmopolitan.· I do go for designer clothes most of the time, because they last longer and are a far better quality.· For a start, there's his burgeoning empire in designer clothes.· Buy less but spend more - not on expensive designer clothes intended for the young, but on well-cut quality clothes.· There's a much, much larger range of great designer clothes over here because it's just a bigger population.· His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail.· Television advertising tells them that they must have designer trainers, designer clothes and good stereos. ► costume· At 81 she married costume designer Jean Louis, who died three years ago.· If forced to examine the movie from that sociological mountaintop, veteran costume designer Ann Roth is right.· Directors and costume designers, not to mention tech people and assistants, all play a key part. ► curriculum· Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers.· This stage involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers and teacher users, as well as observers.· It has application to all areas of the curriculum, and must be borne in mind by curriculum designers.· The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer, especially at the very beginning of the development. ► dress· Ossie Clark, Sixties dress designer, 51.· She wants to be a dress designer.· I also had a meeting with the dress designer for the Palladium show.· Beginning at 11am, the discussion will be opened by well-known dress designer Joanne Ferguson. ► drug· Rachel, 25, is recovering in Liverpool's Broadgreen Hospital after allegedly being given the designer drug ecstacy at a party.· The idea of the game is to collect counters known as E's, another name for the designer drug Ecstasy.· Detectives believe Rachel's drink was spiked with half a tablet of the designer drug at a private party. ► fashion· There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer.· Since then, fashion designers have learned not to dictate a length.· Showbiz characters rubbed shoulders with politicians, famous food and wine writers, and fashion designers.· They say they've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer.· Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer.· Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer, would it? ► garden· You're a garden designer - a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago, if you remember.· Asprey Chapman Landscapes Anthony de Grey is an enthusiastic and skilled garden designer offering a complete landscape service.· A garden designer who doesn't wish to look at her garden is of no use to me. ► label· As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.· If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label.· They are aware that designer labels are no passport to instant glamour and that designers tend to recycle the past anyway.· They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.· Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again. ► program· Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers.· This stage involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers and teacher users, as well as observers.· The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer, especially at the very beginning of the development.· In conjunction with the teacher, examination of all the computer talents is needed by the program designer. ► software· The findings should be of interest to teachers, software designers and developmental psychologists.· A mode is a current status, a condition. Software designers used them all the time.· San Francisco writer Jeff Johnson is a software designer.· Requirement specifiers, software designers and programmers etc. ► system· This has uncovered some interesting findings - for instance the hitherto unknown demand for 3.3V chips from desktop system designers.· The system designer is therefore left to make a compromise choice of forcing resistance according to the application.· It will enable embedded systems designers to write applications on personal computers or under Unix.· He feels that it is crucial that information system designers take account of the different types of corporate organisational structure. VERB► allow· Video and one-way mirrors allow designers to see how their systems stand up in practice.· This allows the designer to plan the way in which the user will interact with the program in real time.· In a friendly atmosphere look around at leisure and allow our experienced designers to give you advice and original ideas. ► become· There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer.· Wolf meanwhile dreamed of becoming a designer of Soviet planes and trained as an engineer.· Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer.· After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.· He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer, and Dinah had disabused him.· Over many years Meccano became widely used by designers to demonstrate ideas useful in mechanical research.· As computers become more powerful, designers will be able to simulate more sophisticated life forms, including people.· Although Paul is training to become an instrument designer, his sights are now set on an engineering post. ► create· This is another reminder of how little road use was in the minds of the Ducati designers when they created this bike.· The commission in 1974 asked Halprin, an environmental designer, to create the plan that was eventually approved.· We asked our designer to create a series of very different looks using Allied furniture, carpets, fabrics and accessories.· Even then you may consider relying on outside designers to create the masters while your operators simply fill in the gaps.· Alternatively, you can use the form designer to create your own form from scratch.· The ten rooms our designer created are only suggestions, of course. ► work· Her background is interior design, and she works as a designer at a furniture store.· She has worked previously with fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and the late Jean Muir.· Clearly, the distinction is not always so apparent; sometimes artists work as designers, and vice-versa. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► designer label Word family
WORD FAMILYnoundesigndesignerverbdesign someone whose job is to make plans or patterns for clothes, furniture, equipment etc: an interior designer a software designerdress/fashion designerCOLLOCATIONStypes of designera fashion designer (=for clothes)· the well-known fashion designer, Giorgio Armania dress designer (=for clothes for women)· Christian Lacroix was one of Paris's most flamboyant dress designers.a top designer (=a very good and famous fashion designer)· She always wore clothes by top designers.an interior designer (=for the colours, materials etc inside people's homes)· The apartment's previous owners had hired an expensive interior designer.a graphic designer (=who designs the way pictures and words look in books, magazines etc)· He's been working as a graphic designer for two years.a software/program designer (=for computer programs)· Software designers are working on a new operating system.a Web designer (=for websites)· The software allows Web designers to embed small programs into their webpages.a garden/landscape designer (=for gardens)· A landscape designer was commissioned to design the garden.a furniture designer· The tables and chairs were made by the furniture designer Robert White.a costume designer (=for clothes for the actors in a play)· He spent eight years as a costume designer for TV commercials.designer1 noundesigner2 adjective designerdesigner2 adjective [only before noun] ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► designer clothes/jeans/suits etc► designer label Phrases (=an expensive brand from a well-known designer) COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► designer clothes (=made by a well-known designer)· She spends hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. ► designer clothing (=made by a well-known designer) ► a dress designer (=someone whose job is designing women’s clothes)· She’s a former royal dress designer. ► designer drugs (=produced artificially from chemicals)· Designer drugs are highly addictive and can have unpredictable side effects. ► a fashion designer· Her favourite fashion designers include Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre. ► a software developer/engineer/designer· her job as a software developer ► designer wear· I can’t afford designer wear. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► clothes· They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies. ► jeans· Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.· Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.· Primo recognized one of the men-he had seen him in a designer jeans commercial-doing just what he was doing here: walking. ► label· Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels. ► suit· It's the designer suits and the $ 100 haircuts and the iron-fisted control freaks along the sidelines. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► designer label made by a well-known and fashionable designerdesigner clothes/jeans/suits etcdesigner label (=an expensive brand from a well-known designer)
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