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# designed

«designed» in Mova's school dictionary: **planned and drawn before being made: she designed a poster** — 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

verb form (past and past participle of design: design, designs, designed, designing); adjective (well-designed, designed for)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Designed means planned and drawn before being made: she designed a poster. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#m1)

2) Designed for (or to) means made for a particular purpose or person: this bike is designed for small children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#m2)

3) Designed can mean planned on purpose, intended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology lessons, pupils design and make things: they draw plans, choose materials, test and improve (design, make, evaluate). In science, «designed to» explains purpose: a helmet is designed to protect your head; a bird's beak is said to be «designed» for its food, though scientists mean shaped by adaptation. In maths, pupils design shapes, nets and patterns. Phrases: designed by, designed for, designed to, well-designed, badly designed.

### examples

- I designed a poster for the school fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x1)
- This chair is designed for young children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x2)
- The helmet is designed to protect your head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x3)
- The bridge was designed by a famous engineer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x4)
- We designed and built a boat that could float. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x5)
- A well-designed game is easy to learn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x6)
- The car seat is designed to keep babies safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x7)
- Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/designed/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: designed. The «g» is silent: «di-ZINED». Noun: design, designer. «Designed to» + verb tells purpose.

### 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/)
- [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/)
- [Almost everything people make was designed by someone: chairs, signs, logos, books, phones, bags and clothes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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