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Design [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A plan or representation of a thing by an outline; sketch; general view; first idea represented by visible lines; as in painting or architecture.

2. A scheme or plan in the mind. A wise man is distinguished by the judiciousness of his designs.

3. Purpose; intention; aim; implying a scheme or plan in the mind. It is my design to educate my son for the bar.

4. The idea or scheme intended to be expressed by an artist; as the designs of medals.

5. In manufactories, the figures with which workmen enrich their stuffs, copied from painting or draughts.

6. In music, the invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

Design [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To delineate a form or figure by drawing the outline; to sketch; as in painting and other works of art.

2. To plan; to form an outline or representation of any thing. Hence,

3. To project; to form in idea, as a scheme. Hence,

4. To purpose or intend; as, a man designs to write an essay, or to study law.

5. To mark out by tokens.

6. To intend to apply or appropriate; with for; as, we design this ground for a garden, and that for a park. The word design may include an adapting or planning a thing for a purpose, or mere intention or scheme of the mind, which implies a plan. The father designs his son for the profession of the law, or for the ministry. It was formerly followed by to, but this use is now uncommon.

Design [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

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.

5. A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

6. A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.

7. Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.

8. The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.

9. The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

Design [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To form a design or designs; to plan.

Designable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Capable of being designed or marked out.

2. Distinguishable.

Designable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable.

Designate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Appointed; marked out.

Designate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To mark out or show, so as to make known; to indicate by bisible lines, marks, description or something known and determinate; as, to designate the limits of a country; the limits are designated on the map; designate the spot where a star appears in the heavens; designate the place where our ancestors first landed.

2. To point out; to distinguish from others by indication; as, to be able to designate every individual who was concerned in a riot.

3. To appoint; to select or distinguish for a particular purpose; to assign; with for, as to designate an officer for the command of a station; or with to, as this captain was designated to that station.

Designate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Designated; appointed; chosen.

2. To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.

3. To call by a distinctive title; to name.

4. To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.

Designated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Marked out; indicated; shown; pointed out appointed.

Designated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Designate

Designating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Marking out; indicating; pointing out; appointing.

Designating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Designate

Designation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of pointing or marking out by signs or objects; as the designation of an estate by boundaries.

2. Indication; a showing or pointing; a distinguishing from others.

3. Appointment; direction; as, a claim to a throne grounded on the designation of a predecessor.

4. Appointment; a selecting and appointing; assignment; as the designation of an officer to a particular command.

5. Import; distinct application.

6. Finite and infinite are primarily attributed in their first designation to things which have parts.

Designation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.

2. Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.

3. That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.

4. Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.

Designative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Serving to designate or indicate.

Designative [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.

Designator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A Roman officer who assigned to each person his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.

Designator [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.

2. One who designates.

Designatory [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Serving to designate; designative; indicating.

Designed [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Marked out; delineated; planned; intended.

Designed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Design

Designedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

By design; purposely; intentionally; opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.

Designedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.

Designer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who designs, marks out or plans; one who frames a scheme or project; a contriver.

2. One who plots; one who lays a scheme; in an ill sense.

Designer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who designs, marks out, or plans; a contriver.

2. One who produces or creates original works of art or decoration.

3. A plotter; a schemer; -- used in a bad sense.

Designful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Full of design; scheming.

Designfulness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Abundance of design.

Designing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In an ill sense, artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving schemes of mischief; hence, deceitful. designing men are always liable to suspicion.

Designing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The art of delineating objects.

Designing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Forming a design; plnning; delineating the outline; drawing figures on a plane.

Designing [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.

Designing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.

Designing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Design

Designless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without design or intention; inadvertent.

Designless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without design.

Designlessly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Without design; inadvertently; ignorantly.

Designment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Design; sketch; delineation.

2. Design; purpose; aim; intent; scheme.

Designment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

2. Design; purpose; scheme.

Prototype Roget’s Thesaurus §22

N. prototype, original, model, pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type, archetype, antitype, protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample, paradigm, lay-figure, text, copy, design, fugleman, keynote, die, mold, matrix, last, plasm, proplasm, protoplasm, mint, seal, punch, intaglio, negative, stamp

V. be an example, be a role model, set an example, set a copy

Phr. a precedent embalms a principle, exempla sunt odiosa, 4, general relation

Representation Roget’s Thesaurus §554

N. representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, x-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, tv image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit tv, copy, drawing, sketch, draught, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay-figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan) 626, ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram

V. represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature

Adj. represent, representing, representative, *illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento

Painting Roget’s Thesaurus §556

N. painting, depicting, drawing, design, perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy, chiaroscuro composition, treatment, historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, landscape painting, marine painting, still life, flower painting, scene painting, scenography, school, style, the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture, ornamental art, monochrome, polychrome, grisaille, pallet, palette, easel, brush, pencil, stump, black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel, paint, watercolor, body color, oil color, oils, oil paint, varnish, priming, gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass, enamel, encaustic painting, mosaic, tapestry, photography, heliography, color photography, sun painting, graphics, computer graphics, picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas, oil painting &c, fresco, cartoon, easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft, pencil &c. drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink, sketch, outline, study, photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph, daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype, negative, positive, print, glossy print, matte print, enlargement, reduction, life-size print, instant photo, polaroid photo, technicolor, kodachrome, ektachrome, polaroid, portrait, whole length, full length, half length, kitcat, head, miniature, shade, silhouette, profile, landscape, seapiece, view, scene, prospect, panorama, diorama, still life, picture gallery, exhibit, studio, atelier, pinacotheca

V. paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple, hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up, color, dead color, wash, varnish, draw in pencil, paint in oils, stencil, depict

Adj. painted, pictorial, graphic, picturesque, pencil, oil

Adv. in pencil

Phr. fecit, delineavit, mutum est pictura poema

Intention Roget’s Thesaurus §620

N. intent, intention, intentionality, purpose, quo animo, project, undertaking, predetermination, design, ambition, contemplation, mind, animus, view, purview, proposal, study, look out, final cause, raison d'etre, cui bono, object, aim, end, "the be all and the end all", drift, tendency, destination, mark, point, butt, goal, target, bull's-eye, quintain, prey, quarry, game, decision, determination, resolve, fixed set purpose, settled purpose, ultimatum, resolution, wish, arriere pensee, motive, teleology

V. intend, purpose, design, mean, have to, propose to oneself, harbor a design, have in view, have in contemplation, have in one's eye, have in- petto, have an eye to, bid for, labor for, be after, aspire after, endeavor after, be at, aim at, drive at, point at, level at, aspire at, take aim, set before oneself, study to, take upon oneself, take into one's head, meditate, contemplate of, think of, dream of, talk of, premeditate, compass, calculate, destine, destinate, propose, project, have a mind to, desire, pursue

Adj. intended, intentional, advised, express, determinate, prepense, bound for, intending, minded, bent upon, at stake, on the anvil, on the tapis, in view, in prospect, in the breast of, in petto, teleological adv, intentionally, advisedly, wittingly, knowingly, designedly, purposely, on purpose, by design, studiously, pointedly, with intent, deliberately, with one's eyes open, in cold blood, for, with a view, with an eye to, in order to, in order that, to the end that, with the intent that, for the purpose of, with the view of, in contemplation of, on account of, in pursuance of, pursuant to, quo animo, to all intents and purposes

Phr. "the road to hell is paved with good intentions", sublimi feriam sidera vertice

Plan Roget’s Thesaurus §626

N. plan, scheme, design, project, proposal, proposition, suggestion, resolution, motion, precaution, deep-laid plan, system, organization, germ, sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon, rough cast, rough draft, draught copy, copy, proof, revise, drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation) 554, forecast, program(me), prospectus, carte du pays, card, bill, protocol, order of the day, list of agenda, bill of fare, base of operations, platform, plank, slate, ticket, role, policy, contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device, pipelaying, stratagem, trick, alternative, loophole, shift, last shift, measure, step, stroke, stroke of policy, master stroke, trump card, court card, cheval de bataille, great gun, coup, coup d'etat, clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke, bright thought, bright idea, intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination, subplot, underplot, counterplot, schemer, schemist, schematist|, strategist, machinator, projector, artist, promoter, designer, conspirator, intrigant

V. plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch, devise, invent, set one's wits to work, spring a project, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out, lay down a plan, shape out a course, mark out a course, predetermine, concert, preconcert, preestablish, prepare, hatch, hatch a plot concoct, take steps, take measures, cast, recast, systematize, organize, arrange, digest, mature, plot, counter-plot, counter-mine, dig a mine, lay a train, intrigue

Adj. planned, strategic, strategical, planning, prepared, in course of preparation, under consideration, on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor

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Genesis 22:3

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.

Genesis 22:9

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.

Exodus 21:8

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

Exodus 25:9

According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

You must make the tabernacle and design all its furnishings according to the pattern I show you.

Exodus 31:4

To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 35:32

And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 35:35

Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as artistic designers of every kind of craft.

Exodus 38:23

And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.

With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, designer, and embroiderer in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen.

Leviticus 23:37

These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting offerings by fire to the LORD—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.

Numbers 1:17

And Moses and Aaron took these men which are expressed by their names:

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

Numbers 35:11

Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

Joshua 20:2

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

“Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,

Joshua 20:8

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.

And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 21:9

And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name,

From the tribes of Judah and Simeon, they designated these cities by name

1 Kings 7:28

And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

This was the design of the stands: They had side panels attached to uprights,

1 Kings 7:31

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

1 Chronicles 12:31

And of the half tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand, which were expressed by name, to come and make David king.

From the half-tribe of Manasseh: 18,000 designated by name to come and make David king.

1 Chronicles 16:41

And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever;

With them were Heman, Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen and designated by name to give thanks to the LORD, for “His loving devotion endures forever.”

1 Chronicles 29:22

And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.

That day they ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD. Then, for a second time, they designated David’s son Solomon as king, anointing him before the LORD as ruler, and Zadok as the priest.

2 Chronicles 2:14

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father is a man of Tyre. He is skilled in work with gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, purple, blue, and crimson yarn, and fine linen. He is experienced in every kind of engraving and can execute any design that is given him. He will work with your craftsmen and with those of my lord, your father David.