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designed adjective [ dɪˈzʌɪnd ]

• planned or conceived in detail or for a specific purpose.
• "the aircraft performed their designed functions well"

design verb

• decide upon the look and functioning of (a building, garment, or other object), by making a detailed drawing of it.
• "a number of architectural students were designing a factory"
Similar: plan, draw plans of, draw, sketch, outline, map out, plot, block out, delineate, draft, depict, invent, originate, create, think up, come up with, devise, form, formulate, conceive, make, produce, develop, fashion, fabricate, forge, hatch, coin, dream up,
Origin: late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘to designate’): from Latin designare ‘to designate’, reinforced by French désigner . The noun is via French from Italian.


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