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design
design
noun
Definition of DESIGN
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a method worked out in advance for achieving some objective <she always achieves her objective by design rather than by luck>
Synonyms arrangement, blueprint, design, game, game plan, ground plan, master plan, program, project, road map, scheme, strategy, system
Related Words collusion, conspiracy, plot; contrivance, device, gambit, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick; counterplan, counterstrategy; means, tactic, technique, way; procedure, protocol; conception, idea, projet, proposal, specific(s), specification(s); aim, intent, intention, purpose; diagram, formula, layout, map, pattern, platform, policy, recipe, setup
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a secret plan for accomplishing evil or unlawful ends <the adventurer had devised an elaborate design to get the widow's fortune>
Related Words counterconspiracy, counterplot; frame-up; manipulation, subterfuge, trickery; artifice, contrivance, cover-up, dodge, draft, maneuver, stratagem, trick; cabal, confederacy, ring; game, gimmick, racket; ground plan, program, strategy, system; collusion, complicity, connivance, conniving, conspiration
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something that one hopes or intends to accomplish <the immigrant laborer had ambitious designs in mind for his daughter>
Synonyms aim, ambition, aspiration, bourne (also bourn), design, dream, end, idea, ideal, intent, intention, mark, meaning, object, objective, plan, point, pretension, purpose, target, thing
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the way in which the elements of something (as a work of art) are arranged <the design of the building's lobby encourages the free flow of traffic>
Synonyms arrangement, configuration, constellation, design, form, format, getup, layout, makeup, ordonnance, pattern
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