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/dɪˈzaɪn/ · noun
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..
The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design.
The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive.
Where it had been left hundreds of years ago, / Extract from the depth, is but a setting sun, / Paradise is scarce in this light that won’t shine, / What is our earthly task, but a worthy design?
We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts
We have designs on winning the league next season.
To be hateful of the truth by design.
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.
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 […]
Use design when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Design means 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..
Common synonyms include diagram, blueprint, design, plan.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design.
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