design
verb
uk
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design verb (PLAN)
- In 1960, Pierre Cardin became the first couturier to design men's clothes.
- He's designed dresses for many celebrities, most famously the Queen.
- All our advertising material is designed in-house.
- The building isn't designed very well from the point of view of wheelchair access.
- Adam designed and wrote the software.
design verb (INTEND)
B2 [ T usually passive ]
to intend:
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[ + to infinitive ] These measures are designed to reduce pollution.
- The advertisements were designed to shock - that was the whole point of the campaign.
- The government has produced a series of leaflets designed to extend public awareness of the dangers of AIDS.
- This course is designed to give drivers a grounding in car maintenance.
- By its nature, terrorism is designed to strike at the heart of our democratic values.
- The new law is designed to protect people's privacy.
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim at something
- bargain
- conscious
- I might have known idiom
- in someone's crosshairs idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- in the works idiom
- intend
- pencil
- provision
- purposefully
- purposely
- put the cart before the horse idiom
- put their heads together idiom
- rearrange
- settle
design
noun
uk
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design noun (PLAN)
C1 [ C ]
B1 [ S or U ]
the way in which something is planned and made:
- The design of the church echoes that of St. Paul's Cathedral.
- There was a very positive response to our new design - people seemed very pleased with it.
- The designs for the new mosque have attracted widespread criticism.
- The fault surely lies in the design of the equipment.
- The car has a serious design fault.
- architect
- architectural
- architecturally
- architecture
- baroque
- brutalist
- colonial
- defensive architecture
- ecotecture
- floor plan
- ground plan
- hostile architecture
- Italianate
- mid-century modern
- modernism
- pyramid
- rococo
- Romanesque
- sympathetically
- vernacular
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design noun (PATTERN)
design noun (INTENTION)
by design
designs [ plural ]
to have territorial designs (on neighbouring countries)
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- advertent
- advisedly
- aim at something
- bargain
- conscious
- I might have known idiom
- in someone's crosshairs idiom
- in the pipeline idiom
- in the works idiom
- intend
- pencil
- provision
- purposefully
- purposely
- put the cart before the horse idiom
- put their heads together idiom
- rearrange
- settle
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