design
/dɪˈzʌɪn
/- I asked Lara whether crews had discovered problems during construction - poor building plans or designs or materials.
- Not long time back building designs & drawings was a pain in the neck by the hand using the conventional pen and paper on a drafting table.
- The location of the Quarter will depend on the developer's plans and designs and scale of buildings.
Synonyms
- The result is that component design is rarely conceived of in such a way that lends itself to automated manufacturing.
- The set and light design, which was conceived of even before the script was written, was being touted as the main focus of the piece.
- Some plans are difficult to administer, but this is often a result of complex design chosen by the plan sponsor.
- The design of the coin should be clear and precise with unevenness or blurring a sign of counterfeiting.
- The policy and process for deciding on coin designs for our coins is based on the Mint's Policy on Coin Designs and Issue.
- Little is known about Greek influences beyond what can be gathered from coins, although, like much of Roman art and politics, Roman coin designs were heavily influenced by Greek styles.
- Some crystal or fine glassware has a gilt design or edge on the rim of glass or as a decorative design or a patterned glass dish.
- It featured exuberant decorative patterns, designs in the brickwork and wooden attachments.
- It was used by my grandmother and her mother before her as a means of chalking decorative patterns and designs upon the slate hearthstone and doorstep.
Synonyms
- Neither its design nor its purpose has changed in that time.
- The design behind these incidents was undoubtedly to give it a communal colour.
- A second argument draws from the appearance of design in the universe the conclusion that there must be a Designer.
Synonyms
- So the building was deliberately designed to function both as a station and as a fort.
- A competition will be launched to decide who will design the new buildings.
- Of course buildings must be designed with consideration of how they will fit in.
Synonyms
- The new website is designed to help students plan how they get to school or college.
- This equips the researchers to design studies in vitro that will allow them to improve animal welfare and reduce variability.
- Many brands and types of products are specifically designed to protect and restore your leather goods.
Synonyms
Phrases
by design
have designs on
Origin
Late Middle English (as a verb in the sense 'to designate'): from Latin designare 'to designate', reinforced by French désigner. The noun is via French from Italian.
seal from Old English:
Rather than signing their name, people formerly stamped a personal seal in wax on a completed letter or other document. The expressions put the seal on, ‘to put the finishing touch to something’, and set your seal to, ‘to mark something with your own distinctive character’, both derive from this. To seal something off reflects the use of seals to check that something has not been opened or disturbed. In these and related uses, seal goes back to Latin sigillum ‘small picture’, from signum ‘a sign’, the source of design (late 16th century), designate (mid 17th century), ensign (Late Middle English), insignia (mid 17th century), sign (Middle English), signal (Late Middle English), scarlet, and numerous other English words. This seal dates from Middle English. The name of the animal seal derives from Old English seolh, the source also of the selkie or silkie (mid 16th century), the mysterious seal woman of folklore.
- signorial
- Signorina
- signory
- sign painter
- signpost
- signpostless
- sign process
- sign situation
- sign someone in (or out)
- sign someone off
- sign someone on
- sign someone up
- sign something away/over
- sign something out
- sign speech
- sign stimulus
- sign symbol
- sign system
- sign talk
- sign test
- signum
- signum pantheum
- sign up
- sign vehicle
- sign word