Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Conniving; crafty.
- adjective Showing or exercising forethought.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Artful; insidious; intriguing; contriving schemes.
- Synonyms Wily, cunning, crafty, tricky, sly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans.
- adjective Intriguing; artful; scheming.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
design .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
- noun the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word designing.
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
-
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.
Exclusive: Concept Art and Info from Carl Erik Rinsch’s Small | /Film 2010
-
- Establishing a “federal health reserve” type entity called a Medical Advisory Council that would assist in designing minimum standard benefits
Wonk Room » New Details On The HELP Committee Health Bill 2009
-
The engineers did their job in designing a great service.
-
- Establishing a “federal health reserve” type entity called a Medical Advisory Council that would assist in designing minimum standard benefits
Wonk Room 2009
-
Orbit Books needs your help in designing the most ridiculously bad high-concept SFF book cover in the universe.
-
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 2010
-
It is a factor in designing spacecraft cabins, for example.
Think Progress » Sen. Bennett: ‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Nothing Whatever To Do With Clean Air’ 2010
-
Of course, there are still some tough technical challenges in designing the overlay hierarchy.
-
His last few posts on the death of the URL and designing from the gut just blew my mind.
mahalie commented on the word designing
"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
August 2, 2007