Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Conniving; crafty.
- adj. Showing or exercising forethought.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving schemes.
- Synonyms Wily, cunning, crafty, tricky, sly.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of design.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Intriguing; artful; scheming.
- n. The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
- n. the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
Examples
“Girls Comments More oral work, hear it as often as possible Communicate with students from Italy Pen pal send emails Hands on interactive activities Creating posters Reading Books Art based activities Topics on fashion Actual talking conversation Play music Expanding vocabulary, writing sentences real life situations writing reviews cooking acting / drama Italian games, songs Celebrate Italian festivals Bring in public speakers about culture More technology create an Italian environment at school, make it really Italian, spend a term designing something Italian”
“Although he was closely involved with his assistants 'laboratory work and himself a tireless worker, he granted many of them unusual leeway in designing their own projects and determining working hours.”
Richard Kuhn and the Chemical Institute: Double Bonds and Biological Mechanisms
“Of course, there are still some tough technical challenges in designing the overlay hierarchy.”
“Orbit Books needs your help in designing the most ridiculously bad high-concept SFF book cover in the universe.”
“I have also learned that Rinsch has met with various nobel prize winning scientists and theorists in designing a world and a narrative that could be scientifically plausible.”
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“It is a factor in designing spacecraft cabins, for example.”
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“His last few posts on the death of the URL and designing from the gut just blew my mind.”
“- Establishing a “federal health reserve” type entity called a Medical Advisory Council that would assist in designing minimum standard benefits”
“The engineers did their job in designing a great service.”
“This trend away from the overhead of a relational database, which stressed completeness, to the emerging distributed key-value stores that stress scale, represents a shift in designing web architectures.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘designing’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
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abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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mouserie's list
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vicissitude, mouse, indubitably, epistolary, awesome, tipperary, shadow, grimoire, hippopotomonstros..., novel, satire, confessional and 91 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
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"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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mahalie's Words
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Words That Describe Me
Tweets
Looking for tweets for designing.
mahalie "At no time in human history has the potential for designing solutions that contribute to the benefit of human kind been greater than it is today." - Bruce Mau, Graphic Designer Aug 1, 2007