WordNet
adv. with intention; in an intentional manner; "he used that word intentionally"; "I did this by choice" [syn: intentionally, deliberately, designedly, on purpose, purposely, advisedly, by choice] [ant: by chance, unintentionally, unintentionally]
Wikipedia
- By Design, a book by Larry Witham
- By Design: A Hollywood Novel, a novel by Richard E. Grant
- by Design, a specialty furniture retailer in Clive, Iowa
- By Design, an album by Design
By Design is a Canadian film directed by Claude Jutra and was released in 1982. It stars Sara Botsford and Patty Duke Astin.
Usage examples of "by design".
Such uniformity did not guarantee identical food everywhere, since by design Harvey varied the meal offerings at each stop, but customers knew that their food would always be excellent.
This Triel did by design, for light stole the nuances of heat vision, masked the subtle play of emotion that dark elves were so adept at reading.
If it wasn't logical for those three things to have happened by accident, then they had to have happened by design.
He fell onto his knees and, whether by design or accident he did not know, Martok knew it must look to the crowd as if he was throwing himself at Morjod’.
By accident or design -- probably by design, and in spite of the ropes that bound him -- he had slipped off the thwart some time during the night and drowned in a few inches of bilge-water.
These early happenings are narrated for the purpose of showing readers that in the beginning I did not intentionally seek the healing gift and that it was more or less forced upon me by design and circumstance.