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# design

«design» in Mova's school dictionary: **a drawing or plan that shows how something will look or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a design, designs; design — the activity); verb (design, designs, designed, designing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A design is a drawing or plan that shows how something will look or be made. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#m1)

2) A design is a pattern of lines, shapes and colours that decorates something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#m2)

3) (verb) To design means to plan and draw how something will be made or work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#m3)

4) By design means on purpose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#m4)

5) Designs can also mean secret plans, often bad ones, made to get what you want. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#m5)

### sense 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#x1)
- I like the design on your T-shirt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#x2)
- The car was designed to be safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#x3)
- Draw a design for your poster first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#x4)
- Is this mistake by design or by accident? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#x5)
- The tiles have a pattern design of triangles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#x6)
- The wicked brothers stamped and foamed with rage when they saw the failure of their wicked designs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/#x7)

### note

Silent g: de-ZINE. Countable for plans and patterns, uncountable for the subject. A person who designs is a designer.

### In the corpora

- [Supermarkets are designed to make people buy more than they planned, with offers, smells and treats by the tills.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/12/)
- [A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/28-smoking-vaping-and-betting/14/)
- [A bot has no body, so it is neither a boy nor a girl; a name and voice are design choices.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/2-guessing-the-next-word/11/)
- [People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/17/)
- [In The Lion King musical the puppets are designed so you see both the actor and the animal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/27-theatre-stage-actors-backstage/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «design» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/design/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.