Crossword clues for designed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
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To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry.
--Shak.Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design.
--Beau. & Fl. 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.
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To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed.
--Burke.He was designed to the study of the law.
--Dryden.Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean.
Wiktionary
created according to a design v
(en-past of: design)
WordNet
adj. planned or created in an artistic or skilled manner; "a beautifully designed dress"; "some Italian designed sandals have cushioning"
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: intentional] [ant: undesigned]
carefully practiced or designed or premeditated; "a studied reply" [syn: designed(a), studied(a)]
organized so as to give configuration to; "a magnet is surrounded by a configured field"; "a vehicle designed for rough terrain" [syn: configured]
Usage examples of "designed".
Congress passed the first of a series of acts to exclude from the mails publications designed to defraud the public or corrupt its morals.
Ildiran Adar crushed the enemy at Qronha 3, sir, and I know what our new rammers are designed to do.
And thanks to the aeroplankton, everyone now had to own, and wear during the aeroplankton storms, filter-masks conveniently designed to filter out the microorganism and forty-seven varieties of industrial pollutants.
Since the 1950s, the mallness of malls has involved a different set of characteristics: a shared parking lot, common ownership and management, uniform and aesthetically pleasing design, clear and consistent marketing goals, a carefully controlled commercial environment, a tenant mix designed to provide variety, and a wide range of consumer goods.
The old slow transports, not designed for such conditions, flew without aids to navigation or arms against Japanese pursuit.
Smokies shelters but are airier, cleaner, better designed, and without those horrible, depressing chain-link fences across their fronts.
One hamper, designed to be carried by a donkey, held a pair of choice hams from Farmer Pigget and his wife, plus a smoked turkey, taken off the bone, a bushel of potato salad sauced with akh, and a dozen country pasties.
This is a modification of an existing, patented apoptotic organism originally designed to destroy neural plaque.
The discomfort of the drive back to Asmara would be greatly reduced by the superb upholstery and suspension designed by Messrs Rolls and Royce and would be more than adequietely offset by the quasi-civilized amenities of the town.
War automata, possessing no instinct for self-preservation, designed for suicidal combat, would hardly be amenable to entering into any kind of negotiations with a cosmic intruder.
Trying to rebuild a new Banca Lombardia from the ashes was a desperate venture and one which, in all honesty, was more designed to elicit his own freedom than enrich anyone he could persuade to come along for the ride.
Instead of a call for peace or a cry to battle, Barnett delivered a defiant statement that seemed designed to protect his political future by clarifying his 7:30 p.
She was simply but elegantly attired and coiffured, the kind of woman who might have been designed by a Bauhaus architect, except for her bosom, whose free-flowing volume all but contradicted the severe planes of the rest of her body, impeding her balance, creating such a clashing contrast that, speaking strictly aesthetically, she might have benefited from a double mastectomy.
If their beams are designed principally for travel upon Jupiter, why should they have any extraordinary range ?
The Beanstalk had been designed to withstand most natural events, but sabotage was one thing that could never be fully ruled out.