design

• accomplish
• achieve
• action
• adornment
• aim
• allow
• ambition
• angle
• animus
• architecture
• arrange
• arrangement
• artifice
• aspiration
• aspire
• attempt
• big picture
• block out
• blueprint
• bourn
• bourne
• brainchild
• budget
• cabal
• calculate
• caparison
• cast
• chart
• child
• choreograph
• collusion
• comp
• complicity
• compose
• composition
• conation
• conception
• concert
• confederacy
• configuration
• connivance
• conniving
• consider
• conspiracy
• conspiration
• conspire
• constellation
• constitution
• construct
• construction
• contemplate
• contrivance
• contrive
• cook up
• counterconspiracy
• counterplan
• counterplot
• counterstrategy
• cover-up
• create
• debate
• decoration
• deliberation
• delineate
• delineation
• depiction
• describe
• desire
• destination
• destine
• device
• devise
• diagram
• dodge
• doodle
• dope out
• draft
• draw
• drawing
• dream
• dream up
• dummy
• effect
• embellishment
• end
• endeavor
• enterprise
• execute
• fabricate
• fashion
• figure
• figure on
• form
• format
• formation
• formula
• frame
• frame-up
• frill
• fulfill
• gambit
• game
• game plan
• garnish
• get up
• getup
• gimmick
• go
• goal
• grail
• ground plan
• have on
• holy grail
• hope
• idea
• ideal
• illustration
• intend
• intendment
• intent
• intention
• intrigue
• invent
• lay of the land
• lay out
• layout
• look
• machinate
• machination
• make
• make up
• makeup
• maneuver
• manipulation
• map
• mark
• master plan
• mean
• meaning
• means
• meditate
• method
• mind
• model
• motif
• motive
• name of the game
• nirvana
• notion
• object
• objective
• ordonnance
• organization
• organize
• originate
• ornament
• outline
• painting
• paste-up
• pattern
• perform
• perspective
• picture
• pitch
• plan
• platform
• play
• plot
• point
• policy
• ponder
• portrait
• premeditate
• prepare
• pretension
• procedure
• produce
• program
• project
• projet
• proposal
• propose
• proposition
• protocol
• purport
• purpose
• put up
• racket
• recipe
• reflection
• ring
• road map
• ruse
• scenario
• scene
• schema
• scheme
• set out
• setup
• shape
• sketch
• sketch out
• story
• stratagem
• strategy
• strive
• struggle
• study
• style
• subterfuge
• system
• tactic
• tailor
• target
• technique
• terminus
• theme
• thing
• think up
• thinking
• thought
• trace
• tracery
• tracing
• treatment
• trick
• trickery
• trim
• try
• undertaking
• view
• volition
• way
• will
• wish
• work out

• abandon
• being
• break
• confuse
• demolish
• deny
• destroy
• disorder
• disorganization
• disorganize
• disregard
• fail
• forget
• idleness
• ignore
• inactivity
• means
• method
• miss
• mix up
• neglect
• refuse
• ruin
• way
• wreck

• noun
  1. A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
  2. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
  3. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
  4. The composition of a work of art.
  5. Intention or plot.
  6. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
  7. The art of designing.
• verb
  1. To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
  2. To plan (to do something).
  3. To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
  4. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
  5. To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.

• She studied graphic design in college.
• The new phone has a sleek design.
• He helped design the layout of the website.
• They chose a modern design for their kitchen.
• Good design balances beauty and functionality.

ABCs

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daily dozen

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