design
noun (a design, designs; design — the activity); verb (design, designs, designed, designing)
Everyday
- A design is a drawing or plan that shows how something will look or be made. tree →
- A design is a pattern of lines, shapes and colours that decorates something. tree →
- (verb) To design means to plan and draw how something will be made or work. tree →
- By design means on purpose. tree →
- Designs can also mean secret plans, often bad ones, made to get what you want. tree →
In the lessons
In design and technology lessons pupils design and make products; in maths they design patterns and shapes. In everyday life design is how things look and work. Phrases: «design and technology», «by design», «designed for», «a flower design».
Examples
- We designed a bridge out of paper. tree →
- I like the design on your T-shirt. tree →
- The car was designed to be safe. tree →
- Draw a design for your poster first. tree →
- Is this mistake by design or by accident? tree →
- The tiles have a pattern design of triangles. tree →
- The wicked brothers stamped and foamed with rage when they saw the failure of their wicked designs. tree →
Note
Silent g: de-ZINE. Countable for plans and patterns, uncountable for the subject. A person who designs is a designer.
In Jewish tradition
In Sefer Yetzirah it means to shape something by plan. It is used of God making the world through the letters.
Interpretation. Tradition reads God's designing as careful and ordered, with the three mother letters shaping the world, the year and the human being.
Examples
- These three mothers did he create, form, and design, and combine with the three mothers in the world, and in the year, and in Man, both male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- These Three Mothers did He produce and design, and combined them; and He sealed them as the three mothers in the Universe, in the Year and in Man—both male and female. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- To obtain the full value of this Treatise, it should be studied hand in hand with Hermetic Rituals, the " Isiac Tablet ", and with a complete set of the Tarot designs. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
Note
Silent g: de-ZINE. Countable for plans and patterns, uncountable for the subject. A person who designs is a designer.
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «design» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «design» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of «design» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «design» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.
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