Hypertext Webster Gateway: "designing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Designing \De*sign"ing\, n.
The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming
designs or plans.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Designing \De*sign"ing\, a.
Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to
show; to point out; to appoint.
We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry.
--Shak.
Meet me to-morrow where the master And this
fraternity shall design. --Beau. & Fl.
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.
4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the
remote object, but sometimes with to.
Ask of politicians the end for which laws were
originally designed. --Burke.
He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden.
Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project;
mean.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
designing
adj : concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest;
"a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark
schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming
wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: {scheming}]
n : the act of working out the form of something (as by making a
sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design
of a new instrument" [syn: {design}]
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