'Designed' definitions:
Definition of 'designed'
From: WordNet
adjective
Done or made or performed with purpose and intent; "style...is more than the deliberate and designed creation"- Havelock Ellis; "games designed for all ages"; "well-designed houses" [syn: designed, intentional] [ant: undesigned]
Definition of 'Designed'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. [1913 Webster]
- We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to. [1913 Webster]
- Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden.
- Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'designed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advised,
- aforethought,
- aimed,
- aimed at,
- arranged,
- blueprinted,
- calculated,
- charted,
- conscious,
- considered,
- contemplated,
- contrived,
- decided,
- deliberate,
- deliberated,
- determined,
- devised,
- envisaged,
- envisioned,
- figured,
- in the works,
- intended,
- intentional,
- knowing,
- meant,
- meditated,
- methodized,
- of design,
- on the agenda,
- on the anvil,
- on the calendar,
- on the carpet,
- on the docket,
- on the tapis,
- organized,
- planned,
- plotted,
- premeditated,
- prepense,
- projected,
- proposed,
- purposed,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- rationalized,
- resolved,
- scheduled,
- schematized,
- set,
- shaped,
- strategetic,
- strategic,
- studied,
- studious,
- sur le tapis,
- systematized,
- tactical,
- teleological,
- thought-out,
- voluntary,
- willful,
- witting,
- worked out
Words containing 'Designed'
- Design,
- Design for,
- Designable,
- Designate,
- Designated,
- Designating,
- Designation,
- Designative,
- Designator,
- Designedly,
- Designer,
- Designful,
- Designfulness,
- Designing,
- Designment,
- by design,
- Arts of design,
- Grolier design,
- School of design,
- clothes designer,
- costume designer,
- design criteria,
- designated driver,
- designated hitter,
- designer drug,
- fashion designer,
- graphic design,
- graphic designer,
- interior design,
- interior designer,
- computer-aided design