I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dress designer (=someone whose job is designing women’s clothes)
▪ She’s a former royal dress designer.
a fashion designer
▪ Her favourite fashion designers include Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre.
a software developer/engineer/designer
▪ her job as a software developer
designer baby
designer clothes (=made by a well-known designer)
▪ She spends hundreds of pounds on designer clothes.
designer clothing (=made by a well-known designer)
designer drug
designer drugs (=produced artificially from chemicals)
▪ Designer drugs are highly addictive and can have unpredictable side effects.
designer wear
▪ I can’t afford designer wear.
interior designer
web designer
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪ The new bike's unique styling is the work of Ducati's chief designer Pierre Terblanche.
▪ Jim Redding, my chief mechanical designer, and I followed the lorry all the way to make sure nothing went amiss.
▪ According to Ilyushin chief designer I.Y. Katyrev performance targets include a cruising speed of 113-127 knots and a with-reserves range of 770 miles.
good
▪ Computer-aided design may make a good designer out of a sloppy one.
▪ I need Rouben TerArutunian and the best young designers.
▪ He wondered if he'd have made a good interior designer.
▪ To do anything interesting with the software a good programmer and designer will be needed.
▪ Government will commission the best designers, artists and architects, for instance, to help communities transform run-down city centres.
▪ There's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we've put our best designers to work on our range.
▪ It's not good us training designers who then just sit and work in a creative vacuum.
▪ If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label.
graphic
▪ Second prize went to graphic designer Beverley Dowson, 22, of Bishop Auckland.
▪ But 230 pounds was life-threatening for a 5-foot-1-inch graphic designer named Rachel Kochackis.
▪ Visual communication is not the exclusive domain of the graphic designer or the advertising executive.
▪ The questionnaire itself will be made more user-friendly, said Sylvia Harris, a census consultant and graphic designer at Yale University.
▪ Ballard, 29, a graphic designer from Stockbridge, Edinburgh.
▪ Melinda Bergman Burgener is a free-lance writer and graphic designer who lives in San Francisco.
▪ She then undertook a geographical and creative pilgrimage, working as an art instructor, graphic designer and book illustrator.
great
▪ The greatest designers can sway with the prevailing mood of the moment, but remain fundamentally true to their own spirit.
▪ He was also one of the greatest aircraft designers of all time.
▪ This in itself is a great help to designers even before any analysis of their new product is undertaken.
▪ I do not imply some teleological goal-seeking or the existence of a great designer with an aim in mind.
▪ There's a much, much larger range of great designer clothes over here because it's just a bigger population.
▪ The characteristic styles of great architects and designers may be seen clearly reflected - Chippendale, Sheraton, Adam and Hepplewhite.
▪ John Barnard, the world's greatest designer, has been recruited by new team mastermind Harvey Postlethwaite.
▪ I became a house model for the great designer Jean Muir and it was a wonderful foundation because she was meticulous.
industrial
▪ He set up as a freelance industrial designer making furniture from a basement studio in 1952.
▪ This rough-and-ready reasoning is upside-down to the slow, thorough, in-control approach most industrial designers bring to complex machinery.
▪ He became arguably the first industrial designer, working in ceramic, glass, metal, furniture, wallpapers, and textiles.
▪ The competitive pressures of the market place have restrained industrial designers from the austerities that afflicted architects.
interior
▪ He wondered if he'd have made a good interior designer.
▪ Eighty interior designers had gathered to hear her at the Washington Design Center.
▪ Add a border or binding down the leading and bottom edges of curtains for a real interior designer touch.
▪ Both tap the opinions of fashion and interior designers and make predictions several years before the colors hit the market.
▪ The previous owners, one an interior designer, had renovated the whole place very much to Sue and Reg's taste.
▪ Few carpet companies exhibit, making it an even more exclusive event for Stoddard Mercia amongst Britain's leading interior designers.
▪ Happy to co-ordinate with interior designers, architects or contractors.
new
▪ Curve's new lighting designer, Lawrence, is soon to join the police force.
▪ Until I can afford a new pair of designer boxer shorts, I will go along with that.
▪ Shape too has some new imperatives: designers have learnt the vocabulary of active sportswear shapes.
▪ Robin Fior had left, and a new designer had arrived.
▪ I need a new designer and you need to find a way out of a considerable financial mess.
▪ As he did all his life, he also found and encouraged new designers and composers.
▪ He brought in a new interior designer, Ghislaine Belmont-Laon; her work on these showrooms made her name.
original
▪ Indeed, even the original bike's designer, Miguel Galluzzi, hasn't been able to significantly improve on it.
professional
▪ Students learning to be future professional designers will need to think about designing with everyone's needs in mind.
▪ He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer, and Dinah had disabused him.
top
▪ Three top designers were approached at an undisclosed cost.
▪ My gratitude to the top designers for their wonderful patterns, the Teach-in series and oh so very much more.
▪ It does help, of course, if one of the world's top designers is behind it all.
▪ Nowadays, many top designers also produce mass-produced goods which we can buy in the local department store.
▪ Now, however, it seems that even among the top designers, obsolescence is obsolete.
▪ For nomination, top designers, leaders in their field, were chosen by professional bodies and organisations.
young
▪ Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer, would it?
▪ I need Rouben TerArutunian and the best young designers.
■ NOUN
clothes
▪ Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.
▪ They date and marry stars, dress in designer clothes, and are phenomenally rich and cosmopolitan.
▪ I do go for designer clothes most of the time, because they last longer and are a far better quality.
▪ For a start, there's his burgeoning empire in designer clothes.
▪ Buy less but spend more - not on expensive designer clothes intended for the young, but on well-cut quality clothes.
▪ There's a much, much larger range of great designer clothes over here because it's just a bigger population.
▪ His raptures over pretty strangers and their come-hither designer clothes were as over-the-top as his enthusiasm for a new cocktail.
▪ Television advertising tells them that they must have designer trainers, designer clothes and good stereos.
costume
▪ At 81 she married costume designer Jean Louis, who died three years ago.
▪ If forced to examine the movie from that sociological mountaintop, veteran costume designer Ann Roth is right.
▪ Directors and costume designers, not to mention tech people and assistants, all play a key part.
curriculum
▪ Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers.
▪ This stage involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers and teacher users, as well as observers.
▪ It has application to all areas of the curriculum, and must be borne in mind by curriculum designers.
▪ The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer, especially at the very beginning of the development.
dress
▪ Ossie Clark, Sixties dress designer, 51.
▪ She wants to be a dress designer.
▪ I also had a meeting with the dress designer for the Palladium show.
▪ Beginning at 11am, the discussion will be opened by well-known dress designer Joanne Ferguson.
drug
▪ Rachel, 25, is recovering in Liverpool's Broadgreen Hospital after allegedly being given the designer drug ecstacy at a party.
▪ The idea of the game is to collect counters known as E's, another name for the designer drug Ecstasy.
▪ Detectives believe Rachel's drink was spiked with half a tablet of the designer drug at a private party.
fashion
▪ There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer.
▪ Since then, fashion designers have learned not to dictate a length.
▪ Showbiz characters rubbed shoulders with politicians, famous food and wine writers, and fashion designers.
▪ They say they've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer.
▪ Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer.
▪ Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer, would it?
garden
▪ You're a garden designer - a fact brought to my attention just a few weeks ago, if you remember.
▪ Asprey Chapman Landscapes Anthony de Grey is an enthusiastic and skilled garden designer offering a complete landscape service.
▪ A garden designer who doesn't wish to look at her garden is of no use to me.
label
▪ As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.
▪ If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label.
▪ They are aware that designer labels are no passport to instant glamour and that designers tend to recycle the past anyway.
▪ They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.
▪ Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again.
program
▪ Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers.
▪ This stage involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers and teacher users, as well as observers.
▪ The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer, especially at the very beginning of the development.
▪ In conjunction with the teacher, examination of all the computer talents is needed by the program designer.
software
▪ The findings should be of interest to teachers, software designers and developmental psychologists.
▪ A mode is a current status, a condition. Software designers used them all the time.
▪ San Francisco writer Jeff Johnson is a software designer.
▪ Requirement specifiers, software designers and programmers etc.
system
▪ This has uncovered some interesting findings - for instance the hitherto unknown demand for 3.3V chips from desktop system designers.
▪ The system designer is therefore left to make a compromise choice of forcing resistance according to the application.
▪ It will enable embedded systems designers to write applications on personal computers or under Unix.
▪ He feels that it is crucial that information system designers take account of the different types of corporate organisational structure.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Video and one-way mirrors allow designers to see how their systems stand up in practice.
▪ This allows the designer to plan the way in which the user will interact with the program in real time.
▪ In a friendly atmosphere look around at leisure and allow our experienced designers to give you advice and original ideas.
become
▪ There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer.
▪ Wolf meanwhile dreamed of becoming a designer of Soviet planes and trained as an engineer.
▪ Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer.
▪ After I divorced Martin, the big blonde tugged strings and he became consultant designer for a detergent manufacturer.
▪ He had thought that he was good enough to become a professional stage designer, and Dinah had disabused him.
▪ Over many years Meccano became widely used by designers to demonstrate ideas useful in mechanical research.
▪ As computers become more powerful, designers will be able to simulate more sophisticated life forms, including people.
▪ Although Paul is training to become an instrument designer, his sights are now set on an engineering post.
create
▪ This is another reminder of how little road use was in the minds of the Ducati designers when they created this bike.
▪ The commission in 1974 asked Halprin, an environmental designer, to create the plan that was eventually approved.
▪ We asked our designer to create a series of very different looks using Allied furniture, carpets, fabrics and accessories.
▪ Even then you may consider relying on outside designers to create the masters while your operators simply fill in the gaps.
▪ Alternatively, you can use the form designer to create your own form from scratch.
▪ The ten rooms our designer created are only suggestions, of course.
work
▪ Her background is interior design, and she works as a designer at a furniture store.
▪ She has worked previously with fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and the late Jean Muir.
▪ Clearly, the distinction is not always so apparent; sometimes artists work as designers, and vice-versa.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
designer label
▪ As for clothes, fashion consultant Barbara Thomas decided Norma had the poise and presence to carry off a sophisticated designer label.
▪ If the new range do as well Doc Martens will surely be established as Britain's best known designer label.
▪ Not that any amount of designer labels would or could reconcile her to the prospect of meeting Antoinette again.
▪ Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels.
▪ They are aware that designer labels are no passport to instant glamour and that designers tend to recycle the past anyway.
▪ They think that all designer label clothes are just expensive rip-offs.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Designers at Ford say the car's soft shape is supposed to be attractive to women.
▪ Anyone with experience as a Web page designer can easily get a job.
▪ I recommend hiring a professional designer.
▪ The show features clothes by famous fashion designers like Jean-Paul Gaultier.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Design development loop: involves the curriculum designer, program designer and teacher developers.
▪ Lately, designers are getting more power, perhaps sacrificing a bit of that sweetness, out of single-ended designs.
▪ Task lighting around the desk is the expected norm in most hotels, and some designers favour floor lamps beside the armchairs.
▪ The designers showed that they understand her position.
▪ We asked our designer to create a series of very different looks using Allied furniture, carpets, fabrics and accessories.
II.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
clothes
▪ They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies.
jeans
▪ Instead of a grey flannel suit he now wears a rather improbable pair of designer jeans and a stiffly pressed polo shirt.
▪ Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.
▪ Primo recognized one of the men-he had seen him in a designer jeans commercial-doing just what he was doing here: walking.
label
▪ Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels.
suit
▪ It's the designer suits and the $ 100 haircuts and the iron-fisted control freaks along the sidelines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ designer jeans
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Investigating officers hope to seize the car, house and a fine collection of designer jewels at a hearing this spring.
▪ It's the designer suits and the $ 100 haircuts and the iron-fisted control freaks along the sidelines.
▪ Primo recognized one of the men-he had seen him in a designer jeans commercial-doing just what he was doing here: walking.
▪ The scurrying tourists with their Nikons and their designer shopping bags are transformed the instant they enter this muted space.
▪ They were accused of materialism, wanting designer clothes instead of babies.
▪ Williams wears the kind of designer tennis dresses that Davenport would be far too self-conscious even to consider putting on.